Re: dead-code stripping, is it possible?
Re: dead-code stripping, is it possible?
- Subject: Re: dead-code stripping, is it possible?
- From: Tom Harrington <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:30:16 -0600
On Jun 3, 2004, at 12:12 AM, Ken Turkowski wrote:
Symbols are merely names of functions, global data, and other global
symbols. The code remain even after the symbols are removed. The
symbols are useful only for debugging. If you ship products with
symbols, it becomes easier for competitors to reverse engineer your
code. You should only ship an application with symbols to trusted
partners, such as beta testers.
Of course, if you're using Objective-C, you can't strip class symbols,
meaning that your deployment build will still yield quite a lot of
interesting information to anyone armed with "class-dump"....
--
Tom Harrington
email@hidden
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