On Dec 10, 2007 6:51 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:

> > Thanks for the detailed explanation. I don't like method names in the
> > binary because they show some implementation details that I would like
> > to hide; several extra bytes of code are really not a problem.
>
> I suppose you could preprocess the source to mangle method names,

Writing such "obfuscator" may be non-trivial.. I tend to think that
modifying Ocaml compiler can be simpler.

> but
> to be honest if you're worried about the security of the binary from
> reverse engineering I'm afraid that you'll need to consider a lot more
> than just mangling.

Not that I worry about reverse engineering too much, but my manager is
not very happy to see human-readable method names in the binary (I
spent enough time to get a permission to code anything in Ocaml; I
don't like to lose it eventually)

- Dmitry Bely