Re: Ada source code obfuscator

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

Ada was designed not to allow "obfuscation" of its code.

The only way to protect your proprietary code is to use a close source 
version of Ada like Green-Hill, IBM Ada compiler which is based on 
Ada 95 spec. Compile the program and only distribute the binary version.

For Adacores GNAT version compilers, unless you are using GNAT PRO,  
you must supply the source code with the binary. See the FAQ page at 
Adacore. It states that all code create by the GNU/GPL version of GNAT 
must be license under the GPL. Which means that the source must be 
made available to the users of the code.

In <bce765d6-c3be-4849-9911-e89608a11880@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>, okellogg <okellogg@freenet.de> writes:
>Does anyone know of a free obfuscator for Ada source code?
>
>(I hit a memory thrashing bug in FSF gcc-4.[1-3] that requires a large
>amount of proprietary code to reproduce. As soon as I remove stuff
>from the test case the memory hog goes away. I'd like to post a bug
>report to GCC bugzilla but would need to obfuscate the source code.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Oliver