[m-rev.] for review: minor changes for valuetype foreign_types

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Jan-2002, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> A few minor fixes promped by petdr's addition of support for value types
> for foreign_type.
...
> doc/reference_manual.texi:
> 	Improve the documentation wording for pragma foreign_type, and
> 	remove the XXX saying that we should accept value types, because
> 	we now accept value types.

It's not right to remove that XXX, since you've only fixed part of the
problem -- after petdr's change, user-defined value types are supported,
but builtin value types such as `int32' still aren't.

The documentation should explain this,
and there should still an XXX comment.

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