C obfuscator
Isaac Rabinovitch
ergo at netcom.UUCP
Mon May 28 14:44:46 AEST 1990
libes at cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
>>>(there are legitimate uses for a C obfuscator!)
>>
>>Such as?
>... a useful way to distribute commercial products for multiple
>platforms. Instead of dozens of binaries, just distribute one source
>and let the buyer compile.
Surely you jest. If the buyer has porting problems, how is he supposed
to deal with it? I've never heard of non-trivial source code that didn't
require tweaking on a new platform.
>For example, page 18 of this month's C Users Journal has an
>advertisement for a lint that comes in "shrouded source form" that is
>K&R and ANSI compatible, and which compiles on UNIX, DOS, VMS, VM/MVS,
>and several other operating systems. The vendor has covered 99% of
>the market with a single distribution.
OK then, I apologize. There are people dumb enough to consider this
a sane form of distrbution. I suppose that should be legitimate enough
for me!
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