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@@ -57,6 +57,20 @@ The 1.9 series has had overly verbose backtraces, which showed frames internal to the implementation of the REPL. This has been mostly fixed. Please report bugs to bug-guile@gnu.org. +** Additions to the foreign function interface (FFI) + +The `(system foreign)' module now provides additional foreign types +corresponding to C's `int', `long', `size_t', etc. + +In addition, the `dynamic-link' procedure can now be called without any +argument, in which case it returns a "global symbol handle", allowing +symbols currently available to the program to be looked up. + +** Documentation of `syntax-rules' macros + +The documentation of macros in the manual is now separate from that of +procedures. A new section on `syntax-rules' macros has been added. + ** Effective version bump to 2.0 Guile has had an "effective version" for some time, typically generated |