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Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all

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Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> writes:
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
>>> buck <buck@private.mil> writes:
>>>>> 'static char v[]={-20,-124,-180,-93,-88,-73,-27,-146,9,-38,-179 ...'
>>>...
>>> This might help:
>>>
>>> ec 84 4c a3 a8 b7 e5 6e 09 da 4d 
>>
>>Out of curiosity, I fed this into an 8086 disassembler, but the
>>results don't make much sense so I doubt that this is 8086
>>machine code:
>
> Wild guess: A key/password for the database?

Wild guess: the late original programmer was really bad at choosing
variable names.

I'd search the source code for occurrences of "v" (full word only) to
see how it's used.  (And if nothing ever modifies it, I'd add "const" to
the declaration.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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13 year old C source - Thanks to all buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-07-29 04:38 +0000
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-07-29 10:37 -0400
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-07-29 11:02 -0400
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-29 08:44 -0700
    Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-07-29 09:26 -0700
      Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-07-29 12:42 -0400
        Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-29 11:16 -0700
      Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-07-29 23:23 +0100
      Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-07-29 17:01 -0600
        Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 16:20 -0700
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-07-29 11:03 -0500
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-07-29 16:57 -0600
    Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-08-02 17:11 +0000
      Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-08-02 12:29 -0600
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 06:10 -0700
  Re: 13 year old C source - Thanks to all Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-08-03 21:08 -0700

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