Re^2: Perl Decompile

the original source code is not stored internally in verbatim form. It is encoded.

That is why I said “more or less”. :-) My point was that the actual Perl source is stored in the binary, whether it is encoded or not, while the internal representation differs greatly with B::C/B::CC.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: Perl Decompile by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 21, 2004 at 19:37 UTC
Pray, tell me Aristotle why would a compiled binary save the source text (encoded or not)? It seems to me that it would just eat up space, unless they use the source text as input to an embedded Perl-system. But that would be cheating wouldn't it? CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^4: Perl Decompile by Elian (Parson) on Sep 21, 2004 at 20:26 UTC
That's what they do. The source is decrypted on the fly and fed to an embedded perl interpreter.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl Decompile by EvilSuggestions (Acolyte) on Sep 21, 2004 at 22:13 UTC
Why? Well, this is Perl we're talking about, where apparently we want to parse anything we please, anytime we please. Using your source at runtime may bring to mind evil Obfuscated Perl contest entries, but it's sometimes very useful, and is in fact how modules like Pod::Usage work.	[reply]