From 77ae026de432a7ecf1ddf779eb5529bf0e67ffce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaz Kylheku Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:37:59 -0700 Subject: doc: no such thing as varray. * txr.1: carray is contrasted with the FFI type varray; but there is no such type. varray is a name used internally in the implementation; it means "variable-length zarray". --- txr.1 | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1 index 9f311ce4..15b49b84 100644 --- a/txr.1 +++ b/txr.1 @@ -62161,15 +62161,15 @@ type is particularly useful in situations when foreign code generates such an array, and the size of that array isn't known from the object itself. -It is also useful, instead of -.code varray +It is also useful, instead of a variable-length +.code zarray for passing a dynamic array to foreign code in situations when the application benefits -from managing the memory for the array. The -.code varray +from managing the memory for the array. The variable-length +.code zarray FFI type's disadvantage relative to .code carray -is that -.code varray +is that the +.code zarray converts an entire Lisp sequence to a temporarily allocated array, which is used only for one call. By contrast, the .code carray -- cgit v1.2.3