@chapter Foreign Function Interface
This chapter describes SBCL's interface to C programs and
-libraries (and, since C interfaces are a sort of @emph{ingua
+libraries (and, since C interfaces are a sort of @emph{lingua
franca} of the Unix world, to other programs and libraries in
general.)
;;; synthesize a nice consistent structure for us.
;;;
;;; Note that st-dev is a long, not a dev-t. This is because dev-t on
-;;; linux 32 bit archs is a 64 bit quantity, but alien doesn's support
+;;; linux 32 bit archs is a 64 bit quantity, but alien doesn't support
;;; those. We don't actually access that field anywhere, though, so
;;; until we can get 64 bit alien support it'll do. Also note that
;;; st_size is a long, not an off-t, because off-t is a 64-bit
;;; checkins which aren't released. (And occasionally for internal
;;; versions, especially for internal versions off the main CVS
;;; branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
-"0.9.5.38"
+"0.9.5.39"