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| 22 | <a href="./Home">MLton 20180207</a>\r | |
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| 26 | <h1>MLNLFFI</h1>\r | |
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| 30 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 31 | <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="References#Blume01"> ML-NLFFI</a> is the no-longer-foreign-function interface\r | |
| 32 | library for SML.</p></div>\r | |
| 33 | <div class="paragraph"><p>As of 20050212, MLton has an initial port of ML-NLFFI from SML/NJ to\r | |
| 34 | MLton. All of the ML-NLFFI functionality is present.</p></div>\r | |
| 35 | <div class="paragraph"><p>Additionally, MLton has an initial port of the\r | |
| 36 | <a href="MLNLFFIGen">mlnlffigen</a> tool from SML/NJ to MLton. Due to low-level\r | |
| 37 | details, the code generated by SML/NJ’s <span class="monospaced">ml-nlffigen</span> is not\r | |
| 38 | compatible with MLton, and vice-versa. However, the generated code\r | |
| 39 | has the same interface, so portable client code can be written.\r | |
| 40 | MLton’s <span class="monospaced">mlnlffigen</span> does not currently support C functions with\r | |
| 41 | <span class="monospaced">struct</span> or <span class="monospaced">union</span> arguments.</p></div>\r | |
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| 44 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 45 | <h2 id="_usage">Usage</h2>\r | |
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| 47 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
| 48 | <li>\r | |
| 49 | <p>\r | |
| 50 | You can import the ML-NLFFI Library into an MLB file with\r | |
| 51 | </p>\r | |
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| 60 | <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" >MLB file</th>\r | |
| 61 | <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" >Description</th>\r | |
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| 65 | <tr>\r | |
| 66 | <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock"><span class="monospaced">$(SML_LIB)/mlnlffi-lib/mlnlffi-lib.mlb</span></p></td>\r | |
| 67 | <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock"></p></td>\r | |
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| 72 | <li>\r | |
| 73 | <p>\r | |
| 74 | If you are porting a project from SML/NJ’s <a href="CompilationManager">CompilationManager</a> to\r | |
| 75 | MLton’s <a href="MLBasis"> ML Basis system</a> using <span class="monospaced">cm2mlb</span>, note that the\r | |
| 76 | following maps are included by default:\r | |
| 77 | </p>\r | |
| 78 | <div class="listingblock">\r | |
| 79 | <div class="content monospaced">\r | |
| 80 | <pre># MLNLFFI Library\r | |
| 81 | $c $(SML_LIB)/mlnlffi-lib\r | |
| 82 | $c/c.cm $(SML_LIB)/mlnlffi-lib/mlnlffi-lib.mlb</pre>\r | |
| 83 | </div></div>\r | |
| 84 | <div class="paragraph"><p>This will automatically convert a <span class="monospaced">$/c.cm</span> import in an input <span class="monospaced">.cm</span>\r | |
| 85 | file into a <span class="monospaced">$(SML_LIB)/mlnlffi-lib/mlnlffi-lib.mlb</span> import in the\r | |
| 86 | output <span class="monospaced">.mlb</span> file.</p></div>\r | |
| 87 | </li>\r | |
| 88 | </ul></div>\r | |
| 89 | </div>\r | |
| 90 | </div>\r | |
| 91 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 92 | <h2 id="_also_see">Also see</h2>\r | |
| 93 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 94 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
| 95 | <li>\r | |
| 96 | <p>\r | |
| 97 | <a href="References#Blume01">Blume01</a>\r | |
| 98 | </p>\r | |
| 99 | </li>\r | |
| 100 | <li>\r | |
| 101 | <p>\r | |
| 102 | <a href="MLNLFFIImplementation">MLNLFFIImplementation</a>\r | |
| 103 | </p>\r | |
| 104 | </li>\r | |
| 105 | <li>\r | |
| 106 | <p>\r | |
| 107 | <a href="MLNLFFIGen">MLNLFFIGen</a>\r | |
| 108 | </p>\r | |
| 109 | </li>\r | |
| 110 | </ul></div>\r | |
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