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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. |