Re: creating unibyte strings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 22:51:16 +0800
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> In the one native module that I have written, integration of GSSAPI, I end up 
> passing large byte buffers back
> and forth between Elisp and C. There really is no efficient way to do this, 
> so I ended up having to use vectors
> and use extract_integer in a loop.

Can you tell why the byte buffer needs to be exposed to Lisp in this
case?  IOW, what would a Lisp program using this module want to do
with these byte buffers?