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authorAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2013-02-18 17:59:38 +0100
committerAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2013-02-18 17:59:38 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/stable-2.0'
Conflicts: libguile/array-handle.c libguile/deprecated.h libguile/inline.c libguile/inline.h module/ice-9/deprecated.scm module/language/tree-il/peval.scm
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@@ -489,6 +489,8 @@ platform-dependent size:
@defvrx {Scheme Variable} long
@defvrx {Scheme Variable} unsigned-long
@defvrx {Scheme Variable} size_t
+@defvrx {Scheme Variable} ssize_t
+@defvrx {Scheme Variable} ptrdiff_t
Values exported by the @code{(system foreign)} module, representing C
numeric types. For example, @code{long} may be @code{equal?} to
@code{int64} on a 64-bit platform.
@@ -801,8 +803,8 @@ int64_t a; uint8_t b; @}}:
@end example
As yet, Guile only has convenience routines to support
-conventionally-packed structs. But given the @code{bytevector->foreign}
-and @code{foreign->bytevector} routines, one can create and parse
+conventionally-packed structs. But given the @code{bytevector->pointer}
+and @code{pointer->bytevector} routines, one can create and parse
tightly packed structs and unions by hand. See the code for
@code{(system foreign)} for details.