Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:50:24 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux |
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:39:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just > > > be my imagination. > > > > All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n >> 1. Can't see any use to that > > either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse engineerers, or > > trap memory corruption? > > I had seen something like that before -- it was image compression > and they were using 9bit "bytes"... which worked like obfuscation, too.
Yes, if they were using 7bit bytes, that'd explain the 0x81 in the sequence ...
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