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From: simpson@saturn.ind.trw.com (Scott Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Using Eiffel in Embedded Systems
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Date: 21 Dec 89 23:41:43 GMT
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Has anybody had any experience putting Eiffel in an embedded system such
as a PC card with memory?  Is this a reasonable thing to do?  Would garbage
collection work OK in one of these types of systems?
	On another front, how about mapping Eiffel types to some specific
representation.  If I have a packet coming in a network link for example,
I could have a C structure with something like

struct packet {
	short	type;
	short	sequence;
	char	data[50];
}

and I know that the representation directly maps into the C structure.
Is there an equivalent way to do this in Eiffel or is this a reasonable 
thing to do?
Scott Simpson    TRW Information Networks Division    simpson@trwind.trw.com