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Re: Java Update and ProGuard obfuscator/optimizer Alexei Svitkine Mon Jun 22 04:01:06 2009

I have not experienced any problems running software obfuscated with
Proguard 4.2 with the latest update.

-Alexei

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ulrich
Kortenkamp<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian,
>
> we always had problems with ProGuard optimization, so we disabled it anyway.
> However, our Software that is obfuscated with ProGuard 4.3 seems to run like
> it did before the update 4.
>
> Ulli
>
> Am 21.06.2009 um 15:15 schrieb Christian Roth:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> this is just a heads-up to anyone using ProGuard <http://
>> proguard.sourceforge.net/> to obfuscate and optimize their Java code:
>> After installing the latest Java Update 4, my jars created by ProGuard
>> seem to be broken.
>>
>> I was using ProGuard 3.4 for a long time and never had any issues with
>> our application. After installing the latest Java update, the jar
>> produced by ProGuard started to throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception
>> (when the unprocessed one does not).
>>
>> I do not know if this is a problem with ProGuard or the Java update at
>> this time. I just want to make sure you do a thorough test of your
>> ProGuard generated jars built after the Java update to make sure they
>> still work, even when you did not change anything else in your
>> configuration.
>>
>> My workaround for now was to (1) update to ProGuard 4.4beta (4.3 was not
>> enough) and (2) disable any optimization routines (running them produces
>> an error in ProGuard itself) by specifying -dontoptimize in the ProGuard
>> configuration.
>>
>>
>> -Christian
>>
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