[Ecls-list] A christmas gift of unboxed functions, etc (experimental)

Dave Roberts dave at vyatta.com
Thu Dec 28 18:07:43 UTC 2006


Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>  - MAKE-ARRAY accepts a foreign pointer as an argument to :DISPLACED-TO That
>    creates a lisp array on top of the foreign data and can be used to directly
>    scan C strings, or unboxed arrays of numbers.

Does this require one to also use :ELEMENT-TYPE ? Or does it assume a 
particular element type (e.g. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) )?

-- Dave




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