NAME¶
PAR::Filter::Bytecode - Bytecode filter
SYNOPSIS¶
PAR::Filter::Bytecode->apply(\$code); # transforms $code
DESCRIPTION¶
This filter is deprecated. The B::Bytecode code has been removed from
the newest development series of perl and will not be included in perl
5.10 any more. Please have a look at Steve Hay's PAR::Filter::Crypto
module if you want to hide your sources.
This filter uses B::Bytecode to turn the script into comment-free,
architecture-specific Perl bytecode, and uses ByteLoader to load back on
execution.
For pp users, please add an extra
-M option, like this:
pp -f Bytecode -M ByteLoader
Otherwise, the implicit dependency on ByteLoader will not be detected.
CAVEATS¶
This backend exhibits all bugs listed in B::Bytecode, and then some.
Bytecode support is considered to be extremely fragile on Perl versions earlier
than 5.8.1, and is still far from robust (as of this writing).
Bytecode is not supported by perl 5.9 and later.
SEE ALSO¶
PAR::Filter, B::Bytecode, ByteLoader
Filter::Crypto, PAR::Filter::Crypto
AUTHORS¶
Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
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Please submit bug reports to <bug-par@rt.cpan.org>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2003-2009 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
See <
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>