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[[Foreign function interface]], or FFI, is a common name for a facility in a programming language (especially a high-level one that does not usually work in terms of pointers, raw structure layout, etc.) to invoke functions and access data structures defined using another one (especially [[C]]). |
[[Foreign function interface]], or FFI, is a common name for a facility in a programming language (especially a high-level one that does not usually work in terms of pointers, raw structure layout, etc.) to invoke functions and access data structures defined using another one (especially [[C]]). |
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==Relevant tasks== |
==Relevant tasks== |
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Revision as of 20:13, 29 July 2009
Foreign function interface, or FFI, is a common name for a facility in a programming language (especially a high-level one that does not usually work in terms of pointers, raw structure layout, etc.) to invoke functions and access data structures defined using another one (especially C).
The term is commonly used in Common Lisp and Haskell.
Relevant tasks
Functions
Data structures/memory access
- Address Operations
- Data Representation - Controlling Fields in a Structure
- Data Representation - Getting the Size
- Data Representation - Specifying Minimum Size
- Host Introspection