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| author | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2017-07-08 21:04:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2017-07-08 21:04:07 -0700 |
| commit | 730f560580ab1a347f034546807de2bc1535c93d (patch) | |
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doc: change Buffers heading.
* txr.1: This change to the buffers heading causes the buf
identifier to be cross-referenced, which is useful to people
browsing the FFI section. Fixing some wording too.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -52931,11 +52931,16 @@ named .codn RTLD_LOCAL , .IR "et cetera" . -.SS* Buffers +.coSS The @ buf type -Buffers are vector-like objects specialized for holding binary data. Buffers -support operations specialized toward the encoding of Lisp values into -machine-oriented data types, and decoding such data types into Lisp values. +Object of the type +.code buf +are +.IR buffers : +vector-like objects specialized for holding binary data represented as +a sequence of 8 bit bytes. Buffers support operations specialized toward the +encoding of Lisp values into machine-oriented data types, and decoding such +data types into Lisp values. Buffers are particularly useful in conjunction with the Foreign Function Interface (FFI), since they can be used to prepare arbitrary data which |