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<span id="Simple-Example-1"></span><h3 class="section">2.2 Simple Example</h3>
<p>Here is a trivial example that calls <code>puts</code> a few times.
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<pre class="example">#include <stdio.h>
#include <ffi.h>
int main()
{
ffi_cif cif;
ffi_type *args[1];
void *values[1];
char *s;
ffi_arg rc;
/* Initialize the argument info vectors */
args[0] = &ffi_type_pointer;
values[0] = &s;
/* Initialize the cif */
if (ffi_prep_cif(&cif, FFI_DEFAULT_ABI, 1,
&ffi_type_sint, args) == FFI_OK)
{
s = "Hello World!";
ffi_call(&cif, puts, &rc, values);
/* rc now holds the result of the call to puts */
/* values holds a pointer to the function's arg, so to
call puts() again all we need to do is change the
value of s */
s = "This is cool!";
ffi_call(&cif, puts, &rc, values);
}
return 0;
}
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