▼ |  | FFI: Racket Foreign Interface

1 | Overview
2 | Loading Foreign Libraries
3 | C Types
4 | Pointer Functions
5 | Derived Utilities
6 | Miscellaneous Support
7 | Unexported Primitive Functions
| Index

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## FFI: Racket Foreign Interface

Eli Barzilay

( require ffi/unsafe )

The ffi/unsafe library enables the direct use of C-based APIs within Racket programs – without writing any new C code. From the Racket perspective, functions and data with a C-based API are foreign, hence the term foreign interface. Furthermore, since most APIs consist mostly of functions, the foreign interface is sometimes called a foreign function interface, abbreviated FFI.

1 Overview
2 Loading Foreign Libraries
3 C Types
3.1 Type Constructors
3.2 Numeric Types
3.3 Other Atomic Types
3.4 String Types
3.4.1 Primitive String Types
3.4.2 Fixed Auto-Converting String Types
3.4.3 Variable Auto-Converting String Type
3.4.4 Other String Types
3.5 Pointer Types
3.6 Function Types
3.6.1 Custom Function Types
3.7 C Struct Types
3.8 Enumerations and Masks
4 Pointer Functions
4.1 Pointer Dereferencing
4.2 Memory Management
5 Derived Utilities
5.1 Safe Homogenous Vectors
5.2 Safe C Vectors
5.3 Tagged C Pointer Types
5.4 Defining Bindings
5.5 Allocation and Finalization
5.6 Atomic Execution
5.7 Speculatively Atomic Execution
5.8 Objective-C FFI
5.8.1 FFI Types and Constants
5.8.2 Syntactic Forms and Procedures
5.8.3 Raw Runtime Functions
5.8.4 Legacy Library
6 Miscellaneous Support
7 Unexported Primitive Functions
Index

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