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<!-- [[User:Kevin Reid]]: I recommend keeping this info reasonably short, as we don't need to duplicate Wikipedia's effort. There should be just enough information to help a Rosetta Code reader navigate. -->
[[Foreign function interface]], or FFI, is a common name for a facility in a programming language (especially a high-level one that does not usually work in terms of pointers, raw structure layout, etc.) to invoke functions and access data structures defined using another one (especially [[C]]).
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==Relevant tasks==
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===Functions===
* [[Call
** [[Call function in shared library]] (a special case)
* [[Use another language to call a function]]
===Data structures/memory access===
* [[Address Operations]]
*
** [[Data Representation -
** [[Data Representation -
** [[Data Representation - Specifying Minimum Size|Specifying Minimum Size]]
* [[Host Introspection]]
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