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<chapter xmlns="http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/documentation" id="gecop/index">
<chapterinfo>
	<copyright>
		<year>2018</year>
		<holder>Eric Bezault</holder>
	</copyright>
	<author>
		<firstname>Eric</firstname><surname>Bezault</surname>
	</author>
	<email>ericb@gobosoft.com</email>
	<date>31 December 2018</date>
</chapterinfo>

<title>Gobo Eiffel Cop</title>

<para>
<projectname>Gobo Eiffel Cop</projectname>, or <projectname>gecop</projectname>
for short, is an open source tool to validate the conformance of Eiffel tools 
(typically compilers) to the ECMA Eiffel standard. It also tests the
interoperability with the ISE Eiffel compiler. It comes with a validation suite
to exercise the Eiffel tool under test.
</para>
<para>
This documentation of <projectname>gecop</projectname> is structured as follows:

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	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<link linkend="usage">Using <projectname>gecop</projectname></link>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			Command-line options.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<ulink url="http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/download.html">Downloading
			Instructions</ulink>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			License agreement and downloading instructions.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</blockquote>

</para>

</chapter>
