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8.3.2 Alien Coercion Operations

Macro: alien:addr alien-expr ¶

This macro returns a pointer to the location specified by alien-expr, which must be either an Alien variable, a use of deref, a use of slot, or a use of extern-alien.

Macro: alien:cast alien new-type ¶

This macro converts alien to a new Alien with the specified new-type. Both types must be an Alien pointer, array or function type. Note that the result is not eq to the argument, but does refer to the same data bits.

Macro: alien:sap-alien sap type ¶

Macro: alien:alien-sap alien-value ¶

sap-alien converts sap (a system area pointer see system-area-pointers) to an Alien value with the specified type. type is not evaluated.

alien-sap returns the SAP which points to alien-value’s data.

The type to sap-alien and the type of the alien-value to alien-sap must some Alien pointer, array or record type.