8 Alien Objects

  By Robert MacLachlan and William Lott

 
• 8.1 Introduction to Aliens
• 8.2 Alien Types
  • 8.2.1 Defining Alien Types
  • 8.2.2 Alien Types and Lisp Types
  • 8.2.3 Alien Type Specifiers
  • The C-Call Package
• 8.3 Alien Operations
  • 8.3.1 Alien Access Operations
  • 8.3.2 Alien Coercion Operations
  • 8.3.3 Alien Dynamic Allocation
• 8.4 Alien Variables
  • 8.4.1 Local Alien Variables
  • 8.4.2 External Alien Variables
• 8.5 Alien Data Structure Example
• 8.6 Loading Unix Object Files
• 8.7 Alien Function Calls
  • The alien-funcall Primitive
  • The def-alien-routine Macro
  • def-alien-routine Example
  • 8.7.4 Calling Lisp from C
  • 8.7.5 Accessing Lisp Arrays
• Step-by-Step Alien Example