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@@ -5,18 +5,21 @@ function interface should be reviewed, reformatted in DocBook,
 lightly edited for &SBCL;, and substituted into this manual. But in
 the meantime, the original &CMUCL; manual is still 95+% correct for
 the &SBCL; version of the foreign function interface. (The main
-difference is that the package names have changed from
-<quote><literal>ALIEN</></> and <quote><literal>C-CALL</></> to
-<quote><literal>SB-ALIEN</></> and <quote><literal>SB-C-CALL</></>.)
+difference is that the package names have changed. CMU CL's FFI
+is in two packages named <quote><literal>ALIEN</></> and
+<quote><literal>C-CALL</></>. The corresponding SBCL FFI is
+in a single package named 
+<quote><literal>SB-ALIEN</></>.)
         <!-- FIXME: Oh, and I seem to remember that the CMUCL manual
 	     was out of date about how to test for a null pointer,
 	     there's a builtin operator to do it, you don't need to
 	     do the nasty idiom the manual says you need to do. -->
 	<!-- FIXME: Also, the CMU CL alien documentation claims you
-	     can just do (DEF-ALIEN-VARIABLE "errno" INT), which fails
-	     with modern multithreading hacks. -->
-	<!-- FIXME: Also, LOAD-FOREIGN isn't implemented as of sbcl-0.6.7,
-	     but LOAD-1-FOREIGN is. -->
+	     can just do (DEFINE-ALIEN-VARIABLE "errno" INT), but it's
+	     wrong. That fails with the multithreading hacks hacks
+	     now built into the C library. -->
+	<!-- FIXME: Also, we support not only LOAD-FOREIGN but
+	     also LOAD-1-FOREIGN. -->
 See the sections
 <itemizedlist>
   <listitem><para>Type Translations</></>