Re: Variable Names

[Patrick LAM <plam@sable.mcgill.ca>]

Hi,

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Roland Weiss wrote:

> I'm starting to use the Soot framewotk as a compiler toolkit. Could
> anyone give me some details on how to preserve the variable names of
> objects (locals). Soot automatically generates names like ($r0, ..., b0,
> ...), but I'd prefer the original names.

You need the phase option 'use-original-names' in the phase 'jb' to be set
to 'true'.  Offhand I don't know the invocation to do that if you're
calling Soot as a library, but you want the same effect as if you
specified '-p jb use-original-names:true' on the command line.

pat