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authorAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2014-02-08 15:31:37 +0100
committerAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2014-02-08 15:31:37 +0100
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This commit also renames uniform-vector-element-type-code to array-type-code. Conflicts: libguile/uniform.c libguile/uniform.h test-suite/tests/arrays.test
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@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008,
-@c 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
@node Foreign Function Interface
@@ -613,12 +613,10 @@ Scheme objects such as strings, floating point numbers, or integers.
Return a bytevector aliasing the @var{len} bytes pointed to by
@var{pointer}.
-The user may specify an alternate default interpretation for
-the memory by passing the @var{uvec_type} argument, to indicate
-that the memory is an array of elements of that type.
-@var{uvec_type} should be something that
-@code{uniform-vector-element-type} would return, like @code{f32}
-or @code{s16}.
+The user may specify an alternate default interpretation for the memory
+by passing the @var{uvec_type} argument, to indicate that the memory is
+an array of elements of that type. @var{uvec_type} should be something
+that @code{array-type} would return, like @code{f32} or @code{s16}.
When @var{offset} is passed, it specifies the offset in bytes relative
to @var{pointer} of the memory region aliased by the returned