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Vector API has been mostly deprecated.

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Marius Vollmer 2005-01-02 20:58:53 +00:00
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@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ The official version is good enough now.
Support for translating the documentation into HTML is now always
provided. Use 'make html'.
** The configure option '--disable-arrays' has been removed.
Support for arrays and uniform numeric arrays is now always included
in Guile.
* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
** New command line option `-L'.
@ -179,7 +184,7 @@ Some non-compatible changes have been made:
There is the new notion of 'generalized vectors' and corresponding
procedures like 'generalized-vector-ref'. Generalized vectors include
strings bitvectors, ordinary vectors, and uniform numeric vectors.
strings, bitvectors, ordinary vectors, and uniform numeric vectors.
Arrays use generalized vectors their storage, so that you still have
arrays of characters, bits, etc. However, uniform-array-read! and
@ -834,7 +839,7 @@ as SCM_KEYWORDSYM used to do.
This implementation exposed the detailes of the tagging system of
Guile. Use the new C API explained in the manual in node "Uniform
Numeric Vectors" and "Bit Vector", respectively.
Numeric Vectors" and "Bit Vectors", respectively.
The following macros are gone: SCM_UVECTOR_BASE, SCM_SET_UVECTOR_BASE,
SCM_UVECTOR_MAXLENGTH, SCM_UVECTOR_LENGTH, SCM_MAKE_UVECTOR_TAG,
@ -843,6 +848,19 @@ SCM_SET_BITVECTOR_BASE, SCM_BITVECTOR_MAX_LENGTH,
SCM_BITVECTOR_LENGTH, SCM_MAKE_BITVECTOR_TAG,
SCM_SET_BITVECTOR_LENGTH.
** The macros dealing with vectors have been deprecated.
Use the new functions scm_is_vector, scm_vector_elements,
scm_vector_writable_elements, etc instead. See the manual for more
details.
Deprecated are SCM_VECTORP, SCM_VELTS, SCM_VECTOR_MAX_LENGTH,
SCM_VECTOR_LENGTH, SCM_VECTOR_REF, SCM_VECTOR_SET, SCM_WRITABLE_VELTS.
The following macros have been removed: SCM_VECTOR_BASE,
SCM_SET_VECTOR_BASE, SCM_MAKE_VECTOR_TAG, SCM_SET_VECTOR_LENGTH,
SCM_VELTS_AS_STACKITEMS, SCM_SETVELTS, SCM_GC_WRITABLE_VELTS.
** SCM_CELL_WORD_LOC has been deprecated.
Use the new macro SCM_CELL_OBJECT_LOC instead, which returns a pointer