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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: FlexeLint - replacement for lint - any reviews?
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Date: 6 Jan 91 19:14:37 GMT
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	"Shrouded Source" is source code that is fully compilable, but all of
the identifiers (variables & function names) have been replaced with totally
unreadable strings.  For example, if you have the line:

	int num_records, employee_num;

it could be changed into:

	int JcqX_8iM, A8lrh7;

	In general, the purpose of "Shrouding" is to provide source code that
can be ported and compiled, but not really understood or modified.

	Other things that shrouding can do:

	Replace all integer constants with hex or octal constants

	change for's, while's, and if's to goto's

	destroy the nice format of the original source (i.e. have the shrouded
	source be 1 big long line)

	And probably some other things that I forgot.


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John Gordon
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