# Embedding: jl\_new\_array signature seems incorrect in documentation
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/embedding-jl-new-array-signature-seems-incorrect-in-documentation/3149
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [April 10, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/embedding-jl-new-array-signature-seems-incorrect-in-documentation/3149 "2017-04-10T21:14:15Z")
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### Author:  [@SylvainCorlay](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/SylvainCorlay)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/embedding-jl-new-array-signature-seems-incorrect-in-documentation/3149/1 "2017-04-10T21:14:15Z")
Up until v0.3, the signature of `jl_new_array` was
```julia
jl_array_t *jl_new_array(jl_value_t *atype, jl_tuple_t *dims)
```
And as off v0.4, the signature has changed to
```julia
jl_array_t *jl_new_array(jl_value_t *atype, jl_value_t *dims)
```
The documentation still reflects the old signature: [https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/object.html#Object-allocation-1](https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/object.html#Object-allocation-1)
More practically, I wonder what is the right way to allocate the `dims` tuple to be passed to `jl_new_array` with a given size from the C API. Is there any example of that somewhere?
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### Author:  [@yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuyichao)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/embedding-jl-new-array-signature-seems-incorrect-in-documentation/3149/2 "2017-04-10T21:31:19Z")
It is still a tuple though it’s not called `jl_tuple_t` anymore. You can create the tuple type with `jl_apply_tuple_type` or `jl_apply_tuple_type_v` and then allocate the object with `jl_new_bits` or `jl_new_struct_uninit`. The layout is just an array of `Int` so that’s what you need to pass to `jl_new_bits` or cast the result of `jl_new_struct_uninit` to before filling the numbers in.
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### Author:  [@SylvainCorlay](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/SylvainCorlay)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/embedding-jl-new-array-signature-seems-incorrect-in-documentation/3149/3 "2017-04-10T22:43:57Z")
Yay, it works! Thanks for helping.