n to the buffer cannot be followed by the garbage collector. Is up
to the programmer to ensure such pointers do not become invalid by either keeping explicit references to these values or (temporarily) turning off the garbage collector.
</p>
<p>The inverse of this process is dereferencing a returned pointer. <code class="mendoza-code">ffi/read</code> takes
either a byte sequence, an abstract type, or a raw pointer and extracts the data at that
address into Janet values.
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