[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Apple forbids fpc applications on iPhone

[Jonas Maebe]

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.


Jonas