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Remove mention of issue #2818 from 0.4 manual #16156

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Expand Up @@ -564,12 +564,6 @@ Use ``Ptr{T}`` if the memory is expected to be populated by ``C`` (without type-
Use ``Ref{T}`` if you have an ``isbits`` type,
but you want to turn it into a pointer to a struct in another struct definition.

See issue #2818 for some work that needs to be done to simplify this so that Julia
types can be used to recursively mirror c-style structs,
without requiring as much manual management of the ``Ptr`` conversions.
After #2818 is implemented, it will be true that an ``Vector{T}`` will be equivalent to
an ``Ptr{Ptr{T}}``. That is currently not true, and the conversion must be explicitly.

Mapping C Functions to Julia
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