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  31 <div class="paragraph"><p>MLton&#8217;s foreign function interface (FFI) extends Standard ML and makes
  32 it easy to take the address of C global objects, access C global
  33 variables, call from SML to C, and call from C to SML.  MLton also
  34 provides <a href="MLNLFFI">ML-NLFFI</a>, which is a higher-level FFI for calling
  35 C functions and manipulating C data from SML.</p></div>
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  39 <h2 id="_overview">Overview</h2>
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  44 <a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceTypes">Foreign Function Interface Types</a>
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  49 <a href="ForeignFunctionInterfaceSyntax">Foreign Function Interface Syntax</a>
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  66 <a href="CallingFromSMLToCFunctionPointer">Calling From SML To C Function Pointer</a>
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