From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Thread: fac41,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gidfac41,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!nntpserver.swip.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40929184.4070509@worldonline.fr> From: Philippe Ribet Reply-To: p.ribet@worldonline.fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development References: <95db0572.0404142153.431fd058@posting.google.com> <40900BB0.4040302@tele2.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.170.162.201 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 1083347520 80.170.162.201 (Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:52:00 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:52:00 MET DST Organization: A Customer of Tele2 X-Sender: eu726846@tele2.fr@d80-170-162-201.cust.tele2.fr Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:48:52 +0200 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:142 comp.lang.eiffel:66 Date: 2004-04-30T19:48:52+02:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > In comp.lang.eiffel Philippe Ribet wrote: > : But never forget, each time you need extreme performance or > : very specific instructions, you can use C code (inline or external > : function call). > > Is SmartEiffel just using the C calling convention (allowing a host > of languages) or must it be a C program at the other end? > (Proven and efficient matrix multiplication is not always written > in C.) > You can either inline real C code or call an external function. For an external function, C syntax is used to describe parameters only, then you link with an object file where this function is compiled into (original language can be Fortran, it works fine). -- Philippe Ribet The README file said "Requires Windows 95, NT 4.0, or better." So... I installed it on Linux!