If you must have a program that will run anyway use an interpreted language, python, perl, php, etc.... you can even byte compile it if you must hide the source (at least in python probably others too)
Byte compiling a c program would only have the advantage of hiding the source, it would still have to be finally compiled to run on your architecture. And in the world of Linux and the FSF there's not much incentive to come up with a way for people to make there closed source programs easier to distribute. Eli On 9/28/05, Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > Sounds like Linux needs an intermediate "byte-code" format, so you could > > use gcc to compile to this byte-code and then have gcc on the > > destination machine compile the byte-code in to it's natural machine > > code. > > > > Heh, just a random thought... > There is such. It is called "source code" ;-). Plus you do only need a text > editor to "compile to this byte-code" ;-). > -- > > Carsten Otte > IBM Linux technology center > ARCH=s390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
