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<chapter xmlns="http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/documentation" id="gec/limitations">
<chapterinfo>
	<copyright>
		<year>2006-2022</year>
		<holder>Eric Bezault</holder>
	</copyright>
	<author>
		<firstname>Eric</firstname><surname>Bezault</surname>
	</author>
	<email>ericb@gobosoft.com</email>
	<date>9 January 2022</date>
</chapterinfo>

<title>Gec Limitations</title>

<para>
The following Eiffel constructs have not been implemented yet:

<blockquote>
<variablelist>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Assertions</term>
		<listitem><para>
			not monitored at runtime
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Garbage Collection</term>
		<listitem><para>
			no internal GC, the Boehm GC can be plugged instead
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Storable</term>
		<listitem></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>User-defined expanded classes</term>
		<listitem><para>
			creation procedure `default_create` is not called
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Non-conforming inheritance</term>
		<listitem><para>
			feature replication still uses the pre-ECMA semantics of 'select'
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>SCOOP</term>
		<listitem></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Debugger</term>
		<listitem></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Profiler</term>
		<listitem></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Cecil (C to Eiffel interface)</term>
		<listitem></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>Eiffel for .Net</term>
		<listitem></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</blockquote>

Note that this list is not exhaustive.
</para>

</chapter>
