On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:41:37 +0200 Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>ExternalAddress does not get initialized in a similar fashion that all the 
>other
>FFI classes. There is no ExternalAddress compileFields when you file out 
>the class.
>
>Same for ExternalFunction, ExternalLibrary, ExternalLibraryFunction,
>ExternalObject, ExternalType, FFITester
>
>I do not know if this is a problem but I look non consistent

None of the classes you mention inherit from ExternalStructure, so it's not surprising since #compileFields is a class method in ExternalStructure. 

Cheers,
Bob