Viktor Szakáts wrote: > Hi Maurilio, > >> what about using -gc3 to have an application which is not executed by a VM? > > What you get is a .c source regardless of > the -gc mode, but the problem is that we're > running a translator from .prg to .c. In that > sense it should not make a difference. > Yes, but this translator is run only once, during program build, from there on it is a pure machine code executable.
I think the problem with Apple is that they don't want the VM running on iPhone/iPad because they cannot be sure the code does not contain malicious parts/virus/exploits and so on. > The other thing is that if you want to access > any Apple API from .prg, it's inevitable > to go through a set of wrapper functions, which > is again something Apple seems to not like, > because this way they are in the hands of wrapper > developers regarding what feature is accessible > from .prg code and how fully it is implemented. > I don't think so, you simply have some .c code which is a wrapper to something that, in the end, becomes a .c source which gets compiled/linked to a pure cpu specific assembler code. > At least that's Apple's intent. As to how they > can defend these rules "in court", I have no idea. > They don't defend it in court, they simply will not put your program on iTunes, so you cannot distribute it. Best regards. Maurilio. -- __________ | | | |__| Maurilio Longo |_|_|_|____| farmaconsult s.r.l. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
