Mon Oct 13 21:01:42 PDT 2008  David Brown <lisp@davidb.org>
  * Shareable Vectors for ECL.
  
  ECL uses a non-moving, conservative garbage collector, so shareable
  byte vectors can be implemented just by using a pointer to the data.

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[Shareable Vectors for ECL.
David Brown <lisp@davidb.org>**20081014040142
 
 ECL uses a non-moving, conservative garbage collector, so shareable
 byte vectors can be implemented just by using a pointer to the data.
] hunk ./src/cffi-ecl.lisp 128
+;;;# Shareable Vectors
+;;;
+;;; This interface is very experimental.  WITH-POINTER-TO-VECTOR-DATA
+;;; should be defined to perform a copy-in/copy-out if the Lisp
+;;; implementation can't do this.
+
+(defun make-shareable-byte-vector (size)
+  "Create a Lisp vector of SIZE bytes that can passed to
+WITH-POINTER-TO-VECTOR-DATA."
+  (make-array size :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)))
+
+;;; ECL, built with the Boehm GC never moves allocated data, so this
+;;; isn't nearly as hard to do.
+(defun %vector-address (vector)
+  "Return the address of VECTOR's data."
+  (check-type vector (vector (unsigned-byte 8)))
+  (ffi:c-inline (vector) (object) :unsigned-long
+                "(unsigned long) #0->vector.self.b8"
+                :side-effects nil
+                :one-liner t))
+
+(defmacro with-pointer-to-vector-data ((ptr-var vector) &body body)
+  "Bind PTR-VAR to a foreign pointer to the data in VECTOR."
+  `(let ((,ptr-var (make-pointer (%vector-address ,vector))))
+     ,@body))
+

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[Fix SBCL %CLOSE-FOREIGN-LIBRARY wrt changes in 1.0.21.15
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 - Added regression test: LIBRARY.T-CLAUSE.
 
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