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<h1>MLNLFFIGen</h1>
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<p><code>mlnlffigen</code> generates a <a href="MLNLFFI">MLNLFFI</a> binding from a collection of <code>.c</code>
files. It is based on the <a href="CKitLibrary">CKitLibrary</a>, which is primarily designed
to handle standardized C and thus does not understand many (any?)
compiler extensions; however, it attempts to recover from errors when
seeing unrecognized definitions.</p>
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<p>In order to work around common gcc extensions, it may be useful to add
<code>-cppopt</code> options to the command line; for example
<code>-cppopt '-D<em>extension</em>'</code> may be occasionally useful. Fortunately,
most portable libraries largely avoid the use of these types of
extensions in header files.</p>
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<p><code>mlnlffigen</code> will normally not generate bindings for <code>#included</code>
files; see <code>-match</code> and <code>-allSU</code> if this is desirable.</p>
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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