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Since Objective-C is basically an extension of C, Does the code get converted to pure C code before it is compiled to native code ?
If so, does the conversion happens on RAM or a temporary file containing C code on disk is created by the compiler which is further compiled by C compiler to native code ?
That Objective-C syntax is an extension of C syntax does not mean that it could not have its own compiler. C++ is the same way – its syntax is compatible with C (for the most part, anyway) but it has its own set of tools. Compilers for C, C++, and Objective-C can reuse parts of each other for preprocessing, syntactic analysis and code generation, but there is not need to run them sequentially (e.g. Objective-C ==> C ==> Target code). Compilers no longer go through human-readable assembly language, either (this has been the case for a very long time, too).