On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Bill Unruh <un...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote: > Sorry, but that means that the concept does exist. The binary of a program > is a totally different animal from the original. Not a shred of similarity > in expression exists between the two. If I grep phrases from the original > in the binary, I will not find them.
In future please do some tests before making wild claims (or even just consider how a compiler works). In all the common compilers every text string (IE something that is enclosed in "" in the source) will appear exactly the same in the binary. Variations on the compressed executable theme (which was common in MS-DOS days) will of course be exceptions to this rule. $ gcc test.c $ strings a.out /lib/ld-linux.so.2 __gmon_start__ libc.so.6 _IO_stdin_used puts __libc_start_main GLIBC_2.0 PTRh [^_] hello world $ ./a.out hello world $ cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; } $ -- russ...@coker.com.au http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Main Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org