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<h1>ForeignFunctionInterface</h1>
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<p>MLton&#8217;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.</p>
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<p><a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceTypes">Foreign Function Interface Types</a></p>
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<p><a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceSyntax">Foreign Function Interface Syntax</a></p>
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<p><a href="CallingFromSMLToCFunctionPointer">Calling From SML To C Function Pointer</a></p>
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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