If you try to build a direct-*-array off a straight byte-array, you
get a type error:
Bad store to specialized slot
"value" B{ 0 0 128 63 0 0 0 64 0 0 64 64 }
"class" alien
You can get around this by saying "0 swap <displaced-alien>" before
calling <direct-*-array> to wrap the byte-array in an alien (or no-op
an object that's already an alien), but that shouldn't be necessary.
That adds another three words to any code that needs to treat an
arbitrary memory buffer as a packed array, and the underlying
implementation of direct-*-array should work with either kind of
object without wrapping. Is there a class the "underlying" slot can be
specialized to that would allow both aliens and byte-arrays?
-Joe
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