parse failed

[tyousyuka]

@StevenArzt Hello

there are some errors. and it is very slowly. how to optimize it? is it the flowdroid's bug?

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[StevenArzt]

This seems to be a Soot problem, most likely with the LocalSplitter. It definitely looks like a bug. However, such issues usually only affect individual apps. If you have the time, you can look into it, but the process of translating Dalvik bytecode into Jimple IR isn't exactly trivial.

[t1mlange]

I've seen the same error log within a Kotlin app using the contentDeepToString() method. The example in the docs is sufficient to trigger the error, so this might be useful as a small reproducer for debugging.

[tyousyuka]

@StevenArzt
when I setMergeDexFiles(false), it can parse quickly.
but set it true, it always unable to end parsing.
it is the soot's bug or the flowdroid's bug ? the apk have 3 class.dex or more

[StevenArzt]

The option setMergeDexFiles has nothing to do with the bug. It only specifies whether Soot shall process more than the first DEX file. Excluding additional DEX files just means that you are only parsing a fraction of the code. When you're lucky, this avoids the bug, but it also looses a lot of the code under analysis.

[tyousyuka]

The option setMergeDexFiles has nothing to do with the bug. It only specifies whether Soot shall process more than the first DEX file. Excluding additional DEX files just means that you are only parsing a fraction of the code. When you're lucky, this avoids the bug, but it also looses a lot of the code under analysis.

@StevenArzt Hello
Now I have an APK, approximately 70MB, containing 3. dex files,
If I setMergeDexFiles (false), it can successfully parse and complete within 40 seconds,
If I setMergeDexFiles (true), it will not be able to successfully parse for 2 hours,
So if I want it to be able to setMergeDexFiles (true) and successfully parse within one minute, what should I do?