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    <title>Problem Example</title>
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    <file>example.xml</file>
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    <title>Description</title>
    <p>A common interoperability situation is when you want to incorporate
      a piece of code, solving a complex problem, in your Erlang
      program. Suppose for example, that you have the following C
      functions that you would like to call from Erlang:</p>
      <codeinclude file="complex.c" tag="" type="none"></codeinclude>
    <p>The functions are deliberately kept as simple as possible, for
      readability reasons.</p>
    <p>From an Erlang perspective, it is preferable to be able to call
      <c>foo</c> and <c>bar</c> without having to bother about that
      they are C functions:</p>
    <pre>
% Erlang code
...
Res = complex:foo(X),
...</pre>
    <p>Here, the communication with C is hidden in the implementation
      of <c>complex.erl</c>.
      In the following sections, it is shown how this module can be
      implemented using the different interoperability mechanisms.</p>
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