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From: shelley@atc.sps.mot.com (Norman K. Shelley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Needed feature or method
Keywords: Eiffel, C, Fortran
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Date: 23 Jan 90 22:20:30 GMT
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Many libraries (math, X windows, etc.) written in C and Fortran
require array data structures with one dimensional arrays being
the most prominent. Is there currently an easy and efficient (time and space)
method to pass one dimensional Eiffel arrays to C routines and vice-versa?

C examples are an array of strings i.e. char *stringArray[] or int intArray[].

I do not want to have to copy data back and forth as this is doable but
takes time for the programmer and duplicates time and space at runtime.

Norman Shelley
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