Re: [xmlvm-users] Apple agreements

[Ilya L. <ily...@gm...>]

sounds like there might be another worthy project here -- cleaning up
tool-generated code to make it look man-made so as to avoid detection by
over-reaching, hyper-controlling corporations.

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tm...@ik...> wrote:

> > whether it is actually possible for apple to determine if the code
> > of a submitted app was created using XMLVM or any other tool that outputs
> > native code.
>
> Of course it is. To an expert, it shouldn't be hard to recognize
> patterns in the object code produced from source code generated by
> XMLVM. (Or other similar tools.) After all, if you look at the
> Objective-C output by XMLVM, it is easy to recognize. It doesn't look
> like something a human would write, does it? Sure, an optimising
> compiler will hide some of that, but still, I would be surprised if it
> wasn't still recognizable on the object code level.
>
> --tml
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