Applying to other codebases: missing files + non-runnable Python code

[alexeyev]

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for your valuable work. We have read your paper with great interest; however, we encountered difficulties in applying the instrument you shared to a codebase other than the one you considered in your study.

Specifically, after:

• setting up the environment where the tool should build, compile, and pass the kzalloc test as per the instructions in the README,
• adding the following calls to the CallGraphMain function:

  collect_funcs_definition_map();
  dump_calleesFoiLastUse();
  collectGetterFuncs();
  findPotentialFOIs();

...We observed that the calls to the kmeld analyzer fail due to the absence of files such as run/releaseTerminals.txt, which do not appear to be generated anywhere in the repository.

Additionally, we noticed a potential issue in the Python code of the tool: the variable callSiteDict is used but does not appear to be defined anywhere.

Could you please provide guidance on how to resolve this issue?

Best regards,
Anton