<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="generator" content="AsciiDoc 8.6.8"> <title>ForeignFunctionInterface</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./asciidoc.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./pygments.css" type="text/css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="./asciidoc.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ asciidoc.install(); /*]]>*/ </script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./mlton.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="article"> <div id="banner"> <div id="banner-home"> <a href="./Home">MLton 20130715</a> </div> </div> <div id="header"> <h1>ForeignFunctionInterface</h1> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_overview">Overview</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceTypes">Foreign Function Interface Types</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceSyntax">Foreign Function Interface Syntax</a> </p> </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_importing_code_into_sml">Importing Code into SML</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <a href="CallingFromSMLToC">Calling From SML To C</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="CallingFromSMLToCFunctionPointer">Calling From SML To C Function Pointer</a> </p> </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_exporting_code_from_sml">Exporting Code from SML</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <a href="CallingFromCToSML">Calling From C To SML</a> </p> </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_building_system_libraries">Building System Libraries</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <a href="LibrarySupport">Library Support</a> </p> </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footnotes"><hr></div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> <div id="footer-badges"> </div> </div> </body> </html>