Re: with-foreign-string versus with-cstring

Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:44:39 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.uffi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John DeSoi wrote:
> What is the intended difference between these two macros? I could not 
> find with-foreign-string in the pdf docs.

Good question. On some implementations they may be the same.

With-foreign-string is for allocating a foreign string for general
use. With-cstring is for converting a string for use as an input for a
c function.

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