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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada source code obfuscator
Date: 20 Jan 2008 13:21:48 -0600
Date: 2008-01-20T13:21:48-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ANx0dvWf9GRr@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 47938035$1_5@news.bluewin.ch

In article <47938035$1_5@news.bluewin.ch>, Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> writes:
> I'm afraid you may have misunderstood Oliver's need. His Ada compiler seems to 
> produce memory-leaking code on a very specific situation, which involves 
> proprietary code, and he wants to report this bug with source code so that the 
> compiler maintainers can reproduce this problem. It is not about distributing 
> source code to customers. And if his compiler was Green-Hills or IBM, the 
> situation would be exactly the same: Green-Hills or IBM would say: "Are you sure 
> it is a bug of ours ? Could you please send an example of sources which shows 
> this problem ?". The obfuscation needed here consists in replacing each 
> identifier like "Send_money", "Launch_missile" or 
> "The_solution_to_all_problems",... by I29684, I29685, I29686,...

But to get a rapid solution from a vendor often requires providing a
_simple_ reproducer.  There is often no easy way to do that.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-20 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19 23:28 Ada source code obfuscator okellogg
2008-01-20 11:26 ` Simon Wright
2008-01-21  7:36   ` okellogg
2008-01-20 15:23 ` anon
2008-01-20 17:09   ` Gautier
2008-01-20 19:21     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2008-01-20 19:37       ` okellogg
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