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authorAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2010-08-06 13:41:58 +0200
committerAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2010-08-06 13:41:58 +0200
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remove type discusison from dynamic-pointer docstring
* doc/ref/api-foreign.texi: * libguile/dynl.c (scm_dynamic_pointer): Remove discussion of types from the docstring.
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@@ -514,11 +514,6 @@ Return a ``wrapped pointer'' for the symbol @var{name} in the shared
object referred to by @var{dobj}. The returned pointer points to a C
object.
-This facility works by asking the dynamic linker for the address of a symbol,
-then assuming that it aliases a value of a given type. Obviously, the user must
-be very careful to ensure that the value actually is of the declared type, or
-bad things will happen.
-
Regardless whether your C compiler prepends an underscore @samp{_} to the global
names in a program, you should @strong{not} include this underscore in
@var{name} since it will be added automatically when necessary.