symbol hiding

[Paul Davis]

i'd just like to mention a small concern i have.

hiding symbols might well be a perfectly honest thing to want to do. i
personally can't see why, since a list of symbol names doesn't provide
much extra help to somebody who wants to disassemble and reverse
engineer your code. but i can understand that there might be some
circumstances where its desirable.

the problem is while hiding symbols doesn't impede a
disassembler/reverse engineering effort very much, it does impede
attempts to demonstrate the inappropriate use of someone else's code. 

for this reason, i personally wouldn't feel comfortable asking in a
public forum how to go about doing this. your mileage may and probably
does vary, of course.

--p