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Obfuscated code

Situation: Third-party client API library periodically fails with nasty exception:

Caused by: cli.System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory.
This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
        at cli.TalTrade.Toolkit.DataBlock.ReadData(Unknown Source)
        at cli.TalTrade.Toolkit.RawData.GetDataAsBlock(Unknown Source)
        ... 34 more

After verifying that input parameters are legitimate I decided to take a look at the failing code. My trusty Reflector exposed the following:

private unsafe void ReadData(void modopt(IsConstModifier)* pData)
{
    // This item is obfuscated and can not be translated.
    ...
    if (*(((int*) (&gtal_handle + 4)))[4] < 6)
            goto Label_0038;
    ushort num5 = *((ushort*) (((*(((int*) (&gtal_handle + 4))) + *(((int*) (&gtal_handle + 4)))[6]) - 8) + 6));
    ... 100 more lines like these ...
}

That code is supposed to read data block from memory queue and possibly format it as string. What kind of secret know-how can it be?

Now instead of figuring out the problem by ourselves we are going to send this error to the vendor. What a waste of time on both sides.