On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 08:54:16 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
So, no, I was not kidding. Not even close.
I've had some experience on both sides of this... so, I think I can say with some certainty that debugging symbols make reverse-engineering MUCH easier (many hunts to find the relevant code can be reduced to a keyword search), so I think it's a valid concern.
That D leaks identifiers and other bits from the source code is a real issue preventing some real-world use cases. E.g., there might be legal obligations in place where leaking source code identifiers could be considered a breach of NDA etc. In one case, we needed to write an RTTI patcher for C++ (MSVC) after updating/reconfiguring the build toolchain, as the compiler would otherwise place the class names of some classes in the binary.
