[m-rev.] for review: C foreign types

[Peter Ross]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:42:33PM -0000, Peter Ross wrote:
> 
> fjh wrote:
> > >
> > > I have changed it to sizeof(CForeignType) == sizeof(char *).
> > 
> > Use `void *' rather than `char *' as the generic pointer type.
> > 
> > This restriction alone is not sufficient, e.g. it still won't work
> > correctly for floating point types or structs that happen to have the
> > right size.
> > 
> Why not?
> 
Worked it out.
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