From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2fef6432c43f4d74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.71.34.3!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada source code obfuscator Date: 20 Jan 2008 13:21:48 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <47938035$1_5@news.bluewin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1200856902 24605 192.135.80.34 (20 Jan 2008 19:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19484 Date: 2008-01-20T13:21:48-06:00 List-Id: In article <47938035$1_5@news.bluewin.ch>, Gautier 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.