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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thanks again for the guidance! As I understand it, you made a few points:</p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Overwriting the entire rt.jar might be easier than just overwriting a few classes (<a href="https://jreframeworker.com" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk84846" previewremoved="true">https://jreframeworker.com</a>) has an example
that does that.</span>
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JReFrameworker. This project aims to extend previous works by Erez Metula by introducing JReFrameworker, a tool to produce MCR capabilities aimed at the Java Runtime Environment in a user-friendly way.. JReFrameworker is a bytecode manipulation tool that allows
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</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Soot might have issue transforming Java 8 rt.jar but Java 7 should work.</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank you very much for your information. Really appreciate it! I'll let you know if I successfully achieve that.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Ben Holland <benjholla@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:33:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Zhou, Tong<br>
<b>Cc:</b> soot-list@cs.mcgill.ca<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Soot-list] Interpreter for Soot & How to profile edge count for whole program</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Oh, I missed your point about library classes. Yea I would just make the "library" class an "application" class. I've used
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-Xbootclasspath</span> before as well. It's more of an implementation hack at the end of the day. You might also be able to do some package namespace collision hacks too if you are interested in just a few classes. I'm not totally sure how Soot will respond
in these cases though. It's not hard to have soot produce/transform jimple for the rt.jar method, so you could create a new jar and replace it in your runtime directory or use xbootclasspath. I did something similar for my <a href="https://jreframeworker.com">https://jreframeworker.com</a>
tool (doesn't use Soot, just ASM, but same idea).
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<div>P.S. I noticed that while Soot supports making Jimple for Java 8 the output Jimple had some runtime issues when it came to lambdas. My group made a fix for it and I think even submitted something upstream to Soot but I'm not sure what the status of that
is. For proof of concept stuff you might want to stick to Java 7 especially when dealing with core JDK level classes.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 4:25 PM Zhou, Tong <<a href="mailto:tz@gatech.edu" target="_blank">tz@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Thanks for your help! However that doesn't seem to work with the library classes. Although it's easy to also instrument the library classes but so far I don't know how to instruct the JVM to use my custom library class
instead of its default stuff. I am going to try something like <span style="color:rgb(36,39,41); font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif; font-size:13px; white-space:pre-wrap; background-color:rgb(239,240,241)">-Xbootclasspath/p:</span> , that
might be able to overwrite the bootloaded classes. Thanks a lot!</p>
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<div id="x_m_-4220352197570021276m_-296574278831353559divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Ben Holland <<a href="mailto:benjholla@gmail.com" target="_blank">benjholla@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 3, 2018 4:52:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Zhou, Tong<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:soot-list@cs.mcgill.ca" target="_blank">soot-list@cs.mcgill.ca</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Soot-list] Interpreter for Soot & How to profile edge count for whole program</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I've built something like this before using Soot and another tool called Atlas. The code is public, but not very clean/reliable at this time and it's not using an official branch of Soot. Anyway, the idea is relatively simple. Soot lets you insert
statements before/after statements. You can use this to insert counters before each statement in your control flow graph. A similar example for counting GOTOs is included with Soot: <a href="https://github.com/Sable/soot/wiki/Adding-profiling-instructions-to-applications" target="_blank">https://github.com/Sable/soot/wiki/Adding-profiling-instructions-to-applications</a>.
Each edge in a control flow graph is a transition from one node to another in the control flow graph, so if you were to track the sequence that nodes were visited you could easily correlate that to an edge and keep counters for each edge. The trick will be
to implement it so it's not tracking too much at a time. You only need to the node which node was the previous node to infer the edge, so you should only have to track one item at a time, otherwise, you will be adding a lot of overhead in your instrumentation.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 2:30 PM Zhou, Tong <<a href="mailto:tz@gatech.edu" target="_blank">tz@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Is there any existing project that builds an interpreter on top of Jimple or Shimple? I am currently trying to profile the dynamical basic block counts of a program using an instrumentation-based approach (insert code
that increments a counter) but couldn't find a way instrument the library classes (java.lang.xxx etc). So I was thinking if there's such an interpreter that works on Soot's IR, certain profiling would be quite easy to do in such an interpreter. If no such
thing exists, can someone shed some light on how to profile <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:16px">the </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:16px">dynamical
basic block counts of an entire program including libraries?</span> Thanks a lot! Any comment is appreciated.</p>
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