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Re: Removing source code paths from executable

Massimiliano Origgi wrote :

Hello,
I have recently switched to GCC 4 (under XCode 2.2) and checking the optimized executable file I have found that the full source path of all objective-c source files is included in the executable (there are a few c files and they do not appear).

You may use the strip command (there's a setting in xcode for this), which suppress all symbols but Objective-C class descriptions (name, members, methods, inheritance…). These class descriptions must be there, because they are used by the Objective-C runtime : there's no way to prevent a potential hacker from seeing them (see the class- dump tool). Knowing that, I don't think is really useful to hide Objective-C file names.

This did not happen with GCC 3.3.

Are you sure ? try to run "otool -ov your_executable", I'm almost sure you will see some .m filenames.

--
Damien Bobillot

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