/* Soot - a J*va Optimization Framework * Copyright (C) 2003 Feng Qian * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* ReferenceVariable provides interface for simulating assignments * in a native method. * * e.g., a = b, can be written by a.isAssigned(b); * * A reference variable is an abstract of a variable rather than a * representation of an abstract object, the later is represented by * AbstractObject. * * The simulation formulates the assignment or field assignment of such * high level variable. It is the resposibility of analyses to get the * constraints out of such abstract simulation. * * Analyses may use very different representations of points-to, e.g., * set constraints, type rules, or points-to graphs. All the analyses * have to do is to let the variables in the program implement this * interface. */ package soot.jimple.toolkits.pointer.representations; public interface ReferenceVariable { }