[comp.lang.eiffel] eiffel ports and cross-compiling

ridsdale%knobs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Gary J Ridsdale) (09/24/90)

Having read Bertrand Meyer's article in this month's CACM, I
am intrigued. Could someone please answer these questions:

1. What machines has the Eiffel development system been ported to,
   and specifically, has it been ported to Silicon Graphics 4D?
   
2. In Meyer's article, he refers to the ability of Eiffel to cross-compile
   for other hosts(end of gray box on page 75), since the output
   of the Eiffel compiler is apparently "C" code. Does this mean
   that an Eiffel development system running on one host can be
   used to develop code for another host that Eiffel has not yet
   been ported to? This would be very useful to us, since we
   deal with many different and experimental systems here.

   One problem would be to compile the needed Eiffel run-time libraries
   that will be needed on the new host. Are these available in "C"
   source form?

Gary Ridsdale 
Asst. Professor, C.S.
U of Utah
Gary Ridsdale