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[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 25/04/2024 5:41 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 April 2024 at 14:40:40 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 19:05:48 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 17:15:13 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>>>> I guess that the Darwin support will be restricted to freely 
>>>> distributed macOS applications, as calling `__syscall` surely is a 
>>>> private API that cannot be used in any AppStore application, right?
>>>
>>> You tell me;)
>>> API looks just like any other libc function.
>>
>> I can tell you right off that this will not be allowed in approved 
>> apps. Not just for the `__syscall`, but for overriding the normal 
>> system calls of all libraries. I can't imagine Apple will be OK with 
>> that.
> 
> How would they know? The whole thing happens at the link time.
> 
> —
> Dmitry Olshansky
> CEO @ Glowlabs
> https://olshansky.me

Two ways:

Look at externs for your binaries, if any symbol is black listed, it 
won't be allowed (such as ``__syscall``).

Decompile, if you see certain instructions, don't allow it.

I can't find it, but we did have something in druntime that was failing 
due to private API usage in the past (and hence couldn't publish D 
applications).