ffi(3)

ffi3

Foreign function interface

Usage

#include <ffi.h>

ffi_status

ffi_prep_cif(ffi_cif *cif, ffi_abi abi, unsigned int nargs, ffi_type *rtype, ffi_type **atypes);

void

ffi_prep_cif_var(ffi_cif *cif, ffi_abi abi, unsigned int nfixedargs, unsigned int ntotalargs, ffi_type *rtype, ffi_type **atypes);

void

ffi_call(ffi_cif *cif, void (*fn)(void), void *rvalue, void **avalue);

Library

libffi, -lffi

Overview

The foreign function interface provides a mechanism by which a function can generate a call to another function at runtime without requiring knowledge of the called function's interface at compile time.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–6.0
  2. 7–Arch

From libffi 3.8.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.