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<copyright>
<year>2000</year><year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
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<title>Problem Example</title>
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<docno></docno>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
<file>example.xml</file>
</header>
<section>
<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 perspektive, 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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