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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Tue Apr 26 13:11:21 2022 +0100 (2022-04-26) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/libffi/description.txt Tue Apr 26 13:11:21 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 1.4 +The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface 1.5 +to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any 1.6 +function specified by a call interface description at run-time. 1.7 + 1.8 +FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function interface 1.9 +is the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one 1.10 +language to call code written in another language. 1.11 +The libffi library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent 1.12 +layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. 1.13 +A layer must exist above libffi that handles type conversions for values 1.14 +passed between the two languages.