Re: Line numbers

[Feng QIAN <fqian@sable.mcgill.ca>]

The last release of Soot has an option -A LineNumber to preserve line
number info in Jimple (from class file). You can look at the
implementation of this option to find out more info.

Cheers,
Feng
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Feng Qian                                       fqian@sable.mcgill.ca
Sable Research Group                       http://www.sable.mcgill.ca
School of Computer Science, McGill University        Montreal, Canada

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Eric Bodden wrote:

> Hi!
>
> For the static analysis tool we are developing, we want to link the
> source view of a class somehow to the jimple representation so that the
> user can for instance highlight a certain method and then can start a
> request to get all its callers. So I think it is essential to allocate
> the source code line numbers somehow to the appropriate section of
> bytecode. I am sure, the bytecode includes line number information. Do
> the Jimple represenation and InvokeGraph include that as well? If not,
> can you consider other or maybe even better methods to resolve such a
> query on the source code?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Eric
>
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