6 Foreign Types

Foreign types describe how data is translated back and forth between C and Lisp. CFFI provides various built-in types and allows the user to define new types.

• Built-In Types
• Other Types
• Defining Foreign Types
• Foreign Type Translators
• Optimizing Type Translators
• Foreign Structure Types
• Allocating Foreign Objects

Dictionary

• convert-from-foreign
• convert-to-foreign
• defbitfield
• defcstruct
• defcunion
• defctype
• defcenum
• define-foreign-type
• define-parse-method
• foreign-bitfield-symbols
• foreign-bitfield-value
• foreign-enum-keyword
• foreign-enum-value
• foreign-slot-names
• foreign-slot-offset
• foreign-slot-pointer
• foreign-slot-value
• foreign-type-alignment
• foreign-type-size
• free-converted-object
• free-translated-object
• translate-from-foreign
• translate-to-foreign
• with-foreign-slots