[cffi-devel] automatic conversion of array of (unsigned-byte 8) to c-string

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Johan Ur Riise <johan at riise-data.no> wrote:
> this is exactly the example from the manual:
>
> (let ((str (make-array 4 :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)
>                       :initial-element 65)))
>  (foreign-funcall "strlen" :string str :int))

This used to work but it stopped making much sense when we added
support for string encodings. I've fixed the manual and will upload it
as soon as I figure out how to build it on OSX.

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Luís Oliveira
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