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From: lisch@mentor.com (Ray Lischner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Interface between Eiffel and C++
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.205448.8516@mentor.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 20:54:48 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp., Beaverton, OR
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My employer mandates the use of C++, but I am interested in looking
at other OO languages, especially Eiffel.

Before I can even think about mentioning any language other than C++,
I will need to address some basic interface questions (politics, sigh...):
How easy is it to design an interface between C++ and Eiffel?
Specifically, we would need to call C++ functions from Eiffel,
so how can one get Eiffel to understand C++ name mangling?
We would also need to call Eiffel routines from C++, and I know
that extern "Eiffel" does not exist.  The big problem, I suppose,
would be making class definitions from one language available
in the other, but there is the problem of C++ virtual functions
and base classes, etc., etc., etc.

Thank you for any help you can offer.
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Ray Lischner        UUCP: {uunet,tektronix,decwrl}!sequent!mntgfx!lisch