On 8/30/14, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Are you saying that someone could have put a Ritchie hack > into the proprietary compilers [...]
Perhaps you know more about the origins of the hack than I do, I was going to call it a Schell script. > [...] that would detect the code > that GCC was going to have -- even though GCC kept changing? It's surprisingly hard to fundamentally change a program that big. Most changes are fairly minor and leave the basic structure unchanged. So a trap door could look at the large-scale structure using unification to do pattern matching, Then it would be able to adapt automatically to many localised changes. > We can't prove it did not happen, but it would have been hard > for them to keep up with us. But "they" have all the source so they know exactly what they're attacking.. Ian
