# libffi-rs: Rust bindings for [libffi](https://sourceware.org/libffi/)
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The C libffi library provides two main facilities: assembling calls
to functions dynamically, and creating closures that can be called
as ordinary C functions. In Rust, the latter means that we can turn
a Rust lambda (or any object implementing `Fn`/`FnMut`) into an
ordinary C function pointer that we can pass as a callback to C.
## Usage
It’s [on crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/libffi), so you can add
```toml
[dependencies]
libffi = "0.5.3"
```
to your `Cargo.toml` and
```rust
extern crate libffi;
```
to your crate root.
# Examples
In this example, we convert a Rust lambda containing a free variable
into an ordinary C code pointer. The type of `fun` below is
`extern "C" fn(u64, u64) -> u64`.
```
use libffi::high::Closure2;
let x = 5u64;
let closure = Closure2::new(&f);
let fun = closure.code_ptr();
assert_eq!(18, fun(6, 7));
```