Re: Soot 1.2.4 released

["Stephen Andrew Neuendorffer" <neuendor@eecs.berkeley.edu>]

Great!  Thanks alot..  The 1.4 fixes definitely improve the situation for 
those of us using 1.4.

Note to those soot users who are creating and changing classes: This change:

3. new FastHierarchy class designed to eventually replace inefficient and 
confusing Hierarchy class (olhotak)

means that everywhere you used to have to call

        Scene.v().setActiveHierarchy(new Hierarchy());

after modifying the class inheritance structure, you now have to 
additionally call

        Scene.v().setActiveFastHierarchy(new FastHierarchy());

Suggestion to Ondrej:
The above situation is rather frustrating for those of us using soot for 
creating new classes.  Perhaps whenever someone invokes a method that 
breaks the caches in the hierarchy, the method could automatically set a 
dirty flag.  Then, the next time getActiveHierarchy(), or 
getActiveFastHierarchy() is called, the above creation would happen 
automatically...  It's very frustrating to run a transformation and have 
the transformation create improper bytecode because I forgot to reset the 
hierarchy.

Steve

At 12:24 PM 11/22/2002 -0500, Ondrej LHOTAK wrote:
> Dear Soot users,
>
> We are pleased to announce that Soot version 1.2.4 is now available at:
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/
>
> The major new features in this version are:
> 1. The Soot Pointer Analysis Research Kit (Spark)
> 2. Support for bytecode compiled with 1.4.x versions of javac
> 3. Various bug fixes
>
> For more details, please see the web page.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ondrej Lhotak
> Sable Research Group, McGill University