Move <ref>, deref and little-endian? from alien.c-types to alien.data, remove <c...

[factor.git] / basis / alien / c-types / c-types-docs.factor

diff --git a/basis/alien/c-types/c-types-docs.factor b/basis/alien/c-types/c-types-docs.factor
index 9c8d24d1e17fd5d02af6a8f1571921a83b4cdde5..e14a5cb5e10ca7bbc9c2b28abff040ec029e905a 100644 (file)
--- a/basis/alien/c-types/c-types-docs.factor
+++ b/basis/alien/c-types/c-types-docs.factor
@@ -108,14 +108,6 @@ $nl
 "If this condition is not satisfied, " { $link "malloc" } " must be used instead."
 { $warning "Failure to comply with these requirements can lead to crashes, data corruption, and security exploits." } ;
 
-ARTICLE: "c-out-params" "Output parameters in C"
-"A frequently-occurring idiom in C code is the \"out parameter\". If a C function returns more than one value, the caller passes pointers of the correct type, and the C function writes its return values to those locations."
-$nl
-"To wrap Factor data for consumption by the FFI, we use a utility word that constructs a byte array of the correct size and converts the Factor object to a C value stored into that byte array:"
-{ $subsections <ref> }
-"You call the out parameter constructor with the required initial value, then pass the byte array to the C function, which receives a pointer to the start of the byte array's data area. The C function then returns, leaving the result in the byte array; you read it back using this word:"
-{ $subsections deref } ;
-
 ARTICLE: "c-types.primitives" "Primitive C types"
 "The following numerical types are defined in the " { $vocab-link "alien.c-types" } " vocabulary; a " { $snippet "u" } " prefix denotes an unsigned type:"
 { $table