diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Chicken.html b/Doc/Manual/Chicken.html
index 9ff33699a..6ba9f0662 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Chicken.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Chicken.html
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
CHICKEN support was introduced to SWIG in version 1.3.18. SWIG
relies on some recent additions to CHICKEN, which are only
present in releases of CHICKEN with version number
- greater than or equal to 1.0.
+ greater than or equal to 1.40.
CHICKEN can be downloaded from http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken.html
@@ -495,8 +495,8 @@ CHICKEN_HOME=/usr/local/share/chicken
For pointer types, SWIG uses CHICKEN tagged pointers.
A tagged pointer is an ordinary CHICKEN pointer with an
- extra slot for an arbitrary Scheme object. With SWIG
- CHICKEN, this Scheme object is a reference to a type-info
+ extra slot for a void *. With SWIG
+ CHICKEN, this void * is a pointer to a type-info
structure. So each pointer used as input or output from
the SWIG-generated CHICKEN wrappers will have type
information attached to it. This will let the wrappers
@@ -506,22 +506,20 @@ CHICKEN_HOME=/usr/local/share/chicken
To construct a Scheme object from a C pointer, the wrapper code
- calls the function swig_new_pointer_obj(), passing
- stack allocation space of size SWIG_ALLOCSZ_POINTER (see
- definition in Lib/chicken/chickenrun.swg and also
- C_alloc() in the CHICKEN documentation) and a
- pointer to a struct representing the pointer type.
+ calls the function
+ SWIG_NewPointerObj(void *ptr, swig_type_info *type, int owner),
+ The function that calls SWIG_NewPointerObj must have a variable declared
+ C_word *known_space = C_alloc(C_SIZEOF_SWIG_POINTER);
+ It is ok to call SWIG_NewPointerObj more than once,
+ just make sure known_space has enough space for all the created pointers.
To get the pointer represented by a CHICKEN tagged pointer, the
- wrapper code calls the function swig_convert_ptr(),
+ wrapper code calls the function
+ SWIG_ConvertPtr(C_word s, void **result, swig_type_info *type, int flags),
passing a pointer to a struct representing the expected pointer
- type. If the Scheme object passed was not a tagged pointer
- representing a compatible pointer, a non-zero value is returned.
+ type.
Warning: The Chicken typechecking code seems - to be broken (Bug #782468), so that type errors may not be - reported.