Portable Object Compiler 0.2.2

Portable Object Compiler project consists of a set of Objective-C class libraries and a precompiler (translator) that generates plain C code.
Main features:
- Easy to install or to modify.
- Works on many systems with the native cc, debugger, profiler etc. (Unix, Windows, Macintosh, Beos, OpenVMS etc. see Platforms.txt file)
- Option for reference counted memory management (-refcnt). This uses the native malloc(), free() etc. but the compiler generates statements for keeping track of references (Tested on a few platforms, such as IRIX 5.2 with the SGI malloc).
- Built-in possibility of tracing Objective C messages. (OBJCRTMSG)
- Straightforward "C" messenger; "inline cache" messenger. Forwarding C messenger (to support -doesNotUnderstand:).
- All classes get a +initialize message at start-up, rather than each class receives a +initialize before it receives its first message.
- Some support for translating Objective-C to Smalltalk (-st80 option)
- Automatic archiver. Compiler generates code for classes to save and load objects to and from disk (for all instance variables of type "id").
- Option for Garbage Collection (using Boehm gc package). Tested on some UNIXes and WIN32. Option for reference counted memory management (doesnt require Boehm).
- Exception handling scheme (using Objective-C Blocks) that allows to specify a default handler to be executed.
- Supports dynamically loading Objective-C modules on Windows, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, IRIX, Digital Unix etc.
- Has a switch for double indirection for Object identifiers (id as a handle instead of a pointer). (-become: method)
- Supports forwarding messages (-doesNotUnderstand: method)
- Support for Embedded SQL in Objective-C (Informix only for now)
- Great system for experimentation with your own additions/extensions to Objective C !