D code obfuscator

[Vladimir Panteleev]

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.