centos man page for ffi

Query: ffi

OS: centos

Section: 3

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FFI(3)							   BSD Library Functions Manual 						    FFI(3)

NAME
FFI -- Foreign Function Interface
LIBRARY
libffi, -lffi
SYNOPSIS
#include <ffi.h> ffi_status ffi_prep_cif(ffi_cif *cif, ffi_abi abi, unsigned int nargs, ffi_type *rtype, ffi_type **atypes); void ffi_prep_cif_var(ffi_cif *cif, ffi_abi abi, unsigned int nfixedargs, unsigned int ntotalargs, ffi_type *rtype, ffi_type **atypes); void ffi_call(ffi_cif *cif, void (*fn)(void), void *rvalue, void **avalue);
DESCRIPTION
The foreign function interface provides a mechanism by which a function can generate a call to another function at runtime without requiring knowledge of the called function's interface at compile time.
SEE ALSO
ffi_prep_cif(3), ffi_prep_cif_var(3), ffi_call(3) February 15, 2008
Related Man Pages
ffi_call(3) - mojave
ffi_prep_closure(3) - mojave
insb(2) - centos
inw(2) - centos
ffi_call(3) - centos
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