Scary: BB Source Code Names in Compiled EXE's

From: Greg Edwards <"Greg>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:11:33 -0700

Has anyone else noticed that when you look inside an executable compiled in
BB (by changing the program.exe name to program.txt) that you can read all
of your function and module names? As someone who is producing applications
to sell into a competitive world that is scary since it makes it just that
much easier for someone to reproduce what you did.

In C++ (or VC++) when you compile with Debug option on, you can read all the
function names, but when you compile for production you can't see them.

Can BB somehow have a "production" compile that changes all the names into
numeric references or some other means so that our production level .exe's
don't have the function names in them (this would also make the .exe's
smaller since all the text wouldn't need to be in there)?

-Greg

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Received on Sat Apr 28 2001 - 03:11:33 UTC