Jonas Maebe schrieb:
On 09 Apr 2010, at 14:14, Alexander Grau wrote:
If we look at C or Objective-C from a different view, then such a
language could be just another compiler 'target' - how difficult
would it be to add a C/Obj-C target to fpc?
I assume all ordinary machine code can be expressed in C too. C
compilers can be good at optimizations, so the overall performance
could be still acceptable. And yes, it would be some sort of virtual
machine, but it's still C code. And a call to a framework/the OS is
just a C call again.
I remember there was some similar work on a Java-Bytecode-To-C
generator, making it possible/legal to run Java on an iPhone....
The whole point of the change to the SDK agreement is exactly to
forbid doing that sort of stuff.
I think the real question is to what extent this is performed. Writing a
an arithmetic parser in C code is already writing a small virtual
machine. Writing a script parser in C is a virtual machine too. And
writing a smart C code generator can look like a virtual machine program
... or it can look like an ordinary C program.
I think it depends on the intepretation of the concrete code and Apple's
agreements are subject to this interpretation.
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