Re: obfuscating / protecting LUA code

[bert <bestanf@...>]

Just wanted to thank all of you for the great replies :-) power to Lua !

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > - You could change the order of the 'RESERVED' enum in llex.h
>
> No, compiled code contains no lexical elements.
>
> You could reorder the VM instructions in lopcodes.h, but then you need
> to fix lopcodes.c. It's simpler to swap the position of the B and C
> fields in the VM instructions, if you want to go this way.
>
> A much simpler solution is to write your own format for precompiled
> code. Simply reorder the items in DumpFunction (and LoadFunction).
> Or reorder or alter the items in luaU_header (this seems the simplest solution).
> And don't tell anyone!
> --lhf

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