factor/basis/alien/arrays/arrays-docs.factor

IN: alien.arrays
USING: help.syntax help.markup byte-arrays alien.c-types ;

ARTICLE: "c-arrays" "C arrays"
"C arrays are allocated in the same manner as other C data; see " { $link "c-byte-arrays" } " and " { $link "malloc" } "."
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"C type specifiers for array types are documented in " { $link "c-types-specs" } "."
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"Specialized sequences are provided for accessing memory as an array of primitive type values. These sequences are implemented in the " { $vocab-link "specialized-arrays" } " and " { $vocab-link "specialized-arrays.direct" } " vocabulary sets. They can also be loaded and constructed through their primitive C types:"
{ $subsection require-c-type-arrays }
{ $subsection <c-type-array> }
{ $subsection <c-type-direct-array> } ;