Hi Cristian,
I did not look into this in depth so I don't have any useful insights
besides the ones you have already mentioned. At this point I think you have
researched this more than I have.

thanks,
Andreas

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Cristian Zamfir <cristian.zamfir at 
epfl.ch>wrote:

> Hi Andras,
>
> I think there are a few complicated things, mostly threads, garbage
> collection and some inline assembly that you will most likely need to
> emulate in Klee.
> I did not check how the LLVM bitcode for the jdk libraries looks like,
> but I expect you will not be able to execute all of it in Klee because
> some syscalls calls are not yet supported by Klee (including thread
> related functions). Perhaps you will end up adding various components
> from vmkit to Klee to get around many of the problems you will
> encounter.
>
> To be clear, I am not saying running Java programs will be very hard,
> but my initial estimation was that it will not be easy. Please let me
> know if you already looked more into it, I would be interested to know
> more about this.
>
> Cristi
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Andreas Saebjoernsen
> <andreas at digitalplaywright.com> wrote:
> > Hi Cristi,
> > Given you experience it sounds like the design of Klee and/or vmkit makes
> it
> > so that this
> > task is quite prohibitive. I am curious though what in the vmkit bytecode
> > makes it different from
> > llvm-gcc bytecode with respect to Klee?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Andreas
> >
> > But Nicolas suggests generating a .so with vmkit and analyzing that
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Cristian Zamfir <
> cristian.zamfir at epfl.ch>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Andreas,
> >>
> >> As a first step, you can check out this thread where I asked a similar
> >> thing on the llvm-dev list.
> >> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2009-August/024849.html
> >>
> >> My initial thoughts after looking at the llvm bitcode generated by vmkit
> >> were that you would need to modify Klee quite a bit to be able to
> analyze
> >> the llvm bitcode produced by vmkit, but it should be possible.
> >>
> >> Cristi
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Andreas Saebjoernsen wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am considering using Klee for analyzing Java code and I have a
> >> > question regarding
> >> > the feasibility of this. The reason why I am considering this is that
> it
> >> > seems like Klee
> >> > can take any llvm bytecode as input. VMKit is capable of producing
> llvm
> >> > bytecode for
> >> > java, which is what llvm-gcc produce as well, but on the Klee webpage
> >> > llvm-gcc is
> >> > listed as the only option for generating bytecode. That it is the only
> >> > option does not
> >> > have to mean too much, but at the same time I want to double check to
> >> > make sure
> >> > that I am not heading down the wrong path.
> >> >
> >> > Is there anything in Klee that makes it so that it can only analyze
> llvm
> >> > bytecode from
> >> > llvm-gcc or can it also be used to analyze the llvm bytecode produced
> by
> >> > llvm-vmkit?
> >> >
> >> > thanks,
> >> > Andreas
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> >>
> >
> >
>
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