Re: embedded or real-time project using Eiffel

On 19 Feb., 12:04, Andrew Reilly <andrew-newsp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

Yes maybe i'm stuck in my thinking that embedded is "small".

But if not what the hell should the question tell us. In this case any
language is as good or bad as for all programming tasks. He wrote
"embedded or real-time". So i guess the only thing open for discussion
is then real-time.

But this will result again in a comparision of the current available
runtime libraries. Do they allow multi threading, coroutines, signal
handling etc.  For SmartEiffel the answer is clearley no and at least
coroutines and signal handling is also not possible with EiffelStudio.
At least this was with 5.3.

Oh yes i forgot one very serious problem with Eiffel. It compiles to C
and there is no way to tell the compiler to generate a "volatile"
specifier for variables. I guess this alone is enough to say that the
language itself will not work well with typical real-time and embedded
uses. I asked exactly this question in this newsgroup before:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.eiffel/browse_thread/thread/15d2767018f297c1/af4f17416c6c8425?lnk=gst&q=llothar#af4f17416c6c8425