diff options
| author | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2017-07-08 21:04:07 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2017-07-08 21:04:07 -0700 |
| commit | 19acf1d02b0ba62eb6b0b572592632ced36957e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6eee7e9930b8c7d9fefbc075a06b42604496e6fc | |
| parent | f0a9f3562fdd05e5f32e94dac6bdb247b149c2a8 (diff) | |
| download | txr-19acf1d02b0ba62eb6b0b572592632ced36957e4.tar.gz txr-19acf1d02b0ba62eb6b0b572592632ced36957e4.tar.bz2 txr-19acf1d02b0ba62eb6b0b572592632ced36957e4.zip | |
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.
| -rw-r--r-- | txr.1 | 13 |
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 |