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MLton's foreign function interface (FFI) extends Standard ML and makes it easy to take the address of C global objects, access C global variables, call from SML to C, and call from C to SML. MLton also provides <a href="MLNLFFI">ML-NLFFI</a>, which is a higher-level FFI for calling C functions and manipulating C data from SML. <h2 id="head-0efc2e6be4c23b9a513d7ce0dcff8ed80e8912e7">Overview</h2>
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<a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceTypes">Foreign Function Interface Types</a>
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<a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceSyntax">Foreign Function Interface Syntax</a>
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<a href="CallingFromSMLToC">Calling From SML To C</a>
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Last edited on 2009-06-10 19:26:13 by <span title="fenrir.uchicago.edu"><a href="MatthewFluet">MatthewFluet</a></span>.
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