Re: Documentation for Manual for Dynamically Linked Functions

[Søren Hauberg]

David Bateman skrev:
> I attach a patch that adds an appendix to the manual that discusses
> dynamically linked functions. This is based on Coda, dal Segno and takes
> the oct-file section from the sparse.
>
> It also addresses a couple of small issue in the texinfo elsewhere, like
> the missing {} with @result and errors in the indexing of the nodes that
> means the makeinfo build failed.
>
> There are a few missing sections marked with "WRITE ME", and in
> particular the section on mex-files is almost empty. I'll try to fill
> these in soon, but if other would like to help out, even if only to
> criticize what I wrote, then I'd appreciate it.
I've only had a quick look at your text as I don't have much time right 
now. So, just two quick comments

1) You say that an oct file always should return an octave_value_list. 
However, in one example you return an octave_value, which also is OK.

2) I didn't see any mention of garbage collection. It would be nice if 
the manual mentions that ref-counting is used, and what that means to 
memory allocation for the user.

But, from what I saw, your text looked good,
Søren