Re: code transformations?

ma@camcon.co.uk (Michael Andersen)
25 Sep 1996 21:07:32 -0400

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From: ma@camcon.co.uk (Michael Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 Sep 1996 21:07:32 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 96-09-094
Keywords: tools

Tom Lord writes:
  > So the question is, has anybody written such a program? Will anyone?
  > Would releasing such a program on the net be like the SATAN of IP?
  > [There are certainly C obfuscators, but the ones I know of perform primarily
  > lexical smooshing. -John]


CodeShroud (?) from Gimpel Software (the Lint people) will do various semantics
preserving operations such as turning while() and for() loops into labelled
goto: structures in addition to the mangled names. I don't have their
material handy, so there may be many more nasties they've implemented.


I believe it is distributed in obfuscated form (physician, heal thyself) for
distribution on many target platforms - their Unix Lint is anyway.


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