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		+	[[Category:Compiler]]
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	====Introduction====		====Introduction====
	The source code of EiffelStudio was recently made open in a dual licensing model. This makes it possible for a broad group of developers to both learn from and extend the huge code base that embodies EiffelStudio. This article tries to give a good initial understanding behind the most basic ideas of the EiffelStudio implementation.		The source code of EiffelStudio was recently made open in a dual licensing model. This makes it possible for a broad group of developers to both learn from and extend the huge code base that embodies EiffelStudio. This article tries to give a good initial understanding behind the most basic ideas of the EiffelStudio implementation.

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 *Melting ice technology (only for workbench code), see [[Melting Ice Technology|link]]
 *Eiffel supports objects, see [[Object Layout|link]].
-*Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the garbage collector|link]].
+*Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the Garbage Collector|link]].
 *Eiffel has dynamic binding, see [[Dynamic Binding|link]].
 *Eiffel supports generics.

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 When trying to identify the difficult parts of the Eiffel to C compilation it helps to analyze the differences between the two languages. The most important ones are enlisted here:
 *Melting ice technology (only for workbench code), see [[Melting Ice Technology|link]]
-*Eiffel supports objects, see [[Object Layout|link]]
+*Eiffel supports objects, see [[Object Layout|link]].
-*Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the garbage collector|link]]
+*Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the garbage collector|link]].
-*Eiffel has dynamic binding, see [[Dynamic Binding|link]]
+*Eiffel has dynamic binding, see [[Dynamic Binding|link]].
-*Eiffel supports generics
+*Eiffel supports generics.
-*Eiffel supports closures, C only supports function pointers, [[Closures|link]]
+*Eiffel supports closures, C only supports function pointers, see [[Closures|link]].
 *Eiffel supports design by contract.

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 *Melting ice technology (only for workbench code), see [[Melting Ice Technology|link]]
 *Eiffel supports objects, see [[Object Layout|link]]
-*Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the GC|link]]
+*Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the garbage collector|link]]
 *Eiffel has dynamic binding, see [[Dynamic Binding|link]]
 *Eiffel supports generics

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 *Eiffel supports objects, see [[Object Layout|link]]
 *Eiffel has garbage collection, see [[Interfacing the GC|link]]
-*Eiffel has dynamic binding, see [[Dynamic binding|link]]
+*Eiffel has dynamic binding, see [[Dynamic Binding|link]]
 *Eiffel supports generics
 *Eiffel supports closures, C only supports function pointers, [[Closures|link]]

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 ====Overview====
-EiffelStudio is first and foremost a compiler that translates programs written in the Eiffel language into different output formats where one of them is C code. To study a translation process it is important to understand both the source and the target language. The former is a perquisite for this article.
+EiffelStudio is first and foremost a compiler that translates programs written in the Eiffel language into different output formats where one of them is C code. To study a translation process it is important to understand both the source and the target language. The former is of course a perquisite.
 When trying to identify the difficult parts of the Eiffel to C compilation it helps to analyze the differences between the two languages. The most important ones are enlisted here:
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 Of course the languages have other differences too, Eiffel has the from loop construct whereas C has the for and while constructs. But this stuff is very easily translated.

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	*Melting ice technology (only for workbench code).		*Melting ice technology (only for workbench code).

−	Of course the languages have other differences to, Eiffel has the from loop construct whereas C has the for and while constructs. But this stuff is very easily translated.	+	Of course the languages have other differences too, Eiffel has the from loop construct whereas C has the for and while constructs. But this stuff is very easily translated.