Re: deref-array types

Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:25:17 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.uffi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Cyrus Harmon wrote:
> Indeed, it does. So it looks like '(:array :int) and :int both work (on 
> OpenMCL) but '(* :int) fails.

Yes, '(:array :int) is correct. Plain :int will definitely fail on
Allegro.

> So the test works, but there's still a problem WRT the docs, which is 
> that the def-array-pointer syntax doesn't work:

Grr, that's a problem with documentation isn't it. The docs were
written before openmcl support was added. Seems like openmcl can't
handle that.

> works. I'm still not clear on the difference between * and :array 
> though...

For deref-array, always use '(:array <type>).  The docs will need to
be updated.

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Kevin Rosenberg
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