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Racket
29 lines
867 B
Racket
#lang scribble/doc
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@(require "utils.rkt")
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@title{The Racket Foreign Interface}
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@author["Eli Barzilay"]
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@defmodule[ffi/unsafe #:use-sources ('#%foreign)]
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The @racketmodname[ffi/unsafe] library enables the direct use of
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C-based APIs within Racket programs---without writing any new C
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code. From the Racket perspective, functions and data with a C-based
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API are @idefterm{foreign}, hence the term @defterm{foreign
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interface}. Furthermore, since most APIs consist mostly of functions,
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the foreign interface is sometimes called a @defterm{foreign function
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interface}, abbreviated @deftech{FFI}.
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@table-of-contents[]
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@include-section["intro.scrbl"]
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@include-section["libs.scrbl"]
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@include-section["types.scrbl"]
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@include-section["pointers.scrbl"]
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@include-section["derived.scrbl"]
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@include-section["misc.scrbl"]
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@include-section["unexported.scrbl"]
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@index-section[]
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