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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: What we need is a TPU to PAS convertor (Re: tpu files)
- Message-ID: <dmurdoch.258.721324098@mast.queensu.ca>
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- References: <1992Oct29.042903.11589@r-node.gts.org> <1992Nov3.163223.14041@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <73649@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Nov5.045047.21508@uwasa.fi> <dmurdoch.146.720968866@mast.queensu.ca> <1dlt9oINNeft@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:48:18 GMT
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- In article <1dlt9oINNeft@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >
- >>Perhaps it's about time for someone to write a source mangler, so that you
- >>could feel free to release source code without revealing any secrets.
- >
- >Nah, somebody out there would take the time to write an unmangler to reverse
- >your algorithm...either that, or do it by hand...nah. :-)
-
- I realize you were joking, but I was serious. It's not hard to write a
- mangler that's strictly irreversible: simply stripping the comments does
- that. The mangler I had in mind would also change the names of
- local identifiers. Both operations remove information that the compiler
- ignores, but which is essential to someone trying to understand the
- algorithms. There's usually more information in source code than in
- object code. The mangler would remove as much of that as possible.
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- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
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