Re: [Gcl-devel] Questions concerning Documentation, Sockets, FFI

[Camm Maguire]

Hi Peter!

Peter Wood <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:32:01PM -0800, Eric Merritt wrote:
> 
> >  First off the documentation provided (the info files)
> > seems to be a generic set of documents that are not
> > specific to gcl at all. Command line options, etc are
> > well handled by the man page however this leaves gcl
> > specific packages like sockets undocumented. Is there
> > any gcl specific documentation? If so could you point
> > me to the appropriate location.
> 
> There is no socket documentation, as far as I know.  Your best bet is
> to read the file o/socket.c.  Apart from that the info file you want
> is GCL-SI or GCL-TK for GCL specific info
>  

I'm adding this to my mental socket to do list, which currently has
your earlier reported erratic failures already on it.  Do you feel in
the mood to suggest a documentation patch to cover the socket API?

> >  Last, but not least. Is there any specific
> > documentation for the FFI? I have downloaded pargcl to
> > use for an example, but I thought that if I was
> > posting to the list anyway I might as well ask this
> > question to.
> 
> In the info files mentioned above, check the entries for 'defcfun'
> 'defentry' 'clines', etc.
> 
> You also mentioned multithreading.  I'm pretty sure GCL doesn't have
> this feature.
> 

Wondering how important this is.

Take care,

> Regards,
> Peter
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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