Arguments: name-or-ftype &optional errorp
Returns an internal structucture containing a description of a foreign type. This internal structure can be passed to those functions that take a foreign type name (such as allocate-fobject).
This function is useful when the foreign-type is a type
description, such as (:array :int 10), that must be
parsed each time it is used in a function such as allocate-fobject. By calling
get-foreign-type once on (:array :int
10) to create the internal description, and then passing that
internal description each time to allocate-fobject, that will save
the parsing cost on each call.
See ftype.htm for information on foreign types in Allegro CL and foreign-functions.htm for general information on foreign functions in Allegro CL.
The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.
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Created 2000.10.5.