Michal Strehovsky • 8/5/2007

Careful with those optimisations

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The article discusses a programmer's discovery of an anti-cracking code snippet in an old magazine, which uses confusing floating-point constants. It demonstrates how modern compiler optimizations can completely remove such code, rendering the intended obfuscation ineffective and highlighting a pitfall in low-level software protection techniques.

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