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@@ -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 |