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From: breissinger-marc@CS.Yale.EDU (Marc Breissinger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: newtworking in Eiffel
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Date: 15 Apr 89 21:02:44 GMT
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Reply-To: breissinger-marc@CS.Yale.EDU (Marc Breissinger)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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Has anyone out there ever used Eiffel for networking?

I am currently working on a multi-player adventure game in eiffel.  I have
the client and server code written in C and I need to wrap eiffel classes
around it somehow.  The problem I am running into is that the Unix network
system calls have params that are pointers to structures (in particular,
hostent, servent, sockaddr, fd_set).

I thought I might be able to write C routines which accept the individual
pieces of data in the structure and then call the appropriate
routines.  I could then wrap an eiffel feature around these routines.
The problem, however, is that some of the system calls return pointers
to these structures.  How do I get this data back into Eiffel?

Any ideas or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
--Marc