native-to-octets

Function

Package: excl

Arguments: address &key vector length

This function returns a Lisp unsigned-byte (8) vector.

This function copies 8-bit byte data from the memory location specified by address into a lisp vector of type (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*)). This vector is returned.

If the vector argument is specified, then its value will be used (and returned) as the destination lisp array. If the vector is not long enough, an error is signaled.

In earlier releases, this function was named native-to-mb. That name is preserved for backward compatibility but new code should use the new name, native-to-octets.

See iacl.htm for general information on International Allegro CL, and see octets-to-native.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

Created 2000.10.5.