Re: 2.0 foreign function interface

[moon (David A. Moon)]

> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 17:29:08 GMT-0600
> From: marty@shumun.weeg.uiowa.edu (Marty Christensen)
>         	
>         The MCL 2.0 manual says on page 395, that the low-level interface function,
> ff-call is implemented. When I evaluate (fboundp 'ff-load) I get a function ID, but
> (fboundp 'ff-call) returns nil. Is this function non-existent, or is it simply another function
> where the name has changed, but the manual doesn't tell you so? 

I noticed this myself a while back.

You can load the foreign function call facility by evaluating (require 'FF).
Otherwise, after you call ff-load once it's loaded and ff-call is now defined.

Maybe ff-call as well as ff-load should have been made to auto-load.