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| author | Andrew Rowland <darowland@ieee.org> | 2011-12-11 22:57:15 -0600 |
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| committer | Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-12-18 00:07:46 -0200 |
| commit | 8eaeb0b42bf4090523feda8f2ffe37567ffeebcc (patch) | |
| tree | f2fe432954a05eb447bfa278238f4d20f2c5848e /libraries/libffi/README | |
| parent | 9a9636292e7c93db031d0cc737abbc0c7b80a7ca (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-8eaeb0b42bf4090523feda8f2ffe37567ffeebcc.tar.gz | |
libraries/libffi: Added (Foreign Function Interface library)
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/libraries/libffi/README b/libraries/libffi/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4a45b2e29e --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libffi/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming +interface to various calling conventions. This allows a +programmer to call any function specified by a call interface +description at run-time. + +FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function +interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code +written in one language to call code written in another language. +The libffi library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent +layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. A layer must +exist above libffi that handles type conversions for values passed +between the two languages. |