Design and implementation of an Objective-C compiler for the virtual machine on smart phone

Abstract

For each platform, for smart phone contents, a unique development environment exists and thus suitable development methods and development languages must be used for each platform. A problem of this development environment is that when contents are created for a number of platforms, an increase in expenses occurs. SVM(Smart Virtual Machine) is a virtual machine solution which is being developed to overcome this problem by using SIL(Smart Intermediate Language) as an intermediate language. SIL is capable of accommodating ISO/IEC C++, Java, Objective-C and other object-oriented programming. In this paper, the Objective-C compiler for the virtual machine is designed and virtualized which creates stack based virtual machine codes, not objective codes when using contents previously developed for the use on other platforms. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.