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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2000</year><year>2009</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+ Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+ Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+ retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+
+ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+ basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+ the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+ under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Problem Example</title>
+ <prepared></prepared>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <date></date>
+ <rev></rev>
+ <file>example.xml</file>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Description</title>
+ <p>A common interoperability situation is when there exists a piece of code solving some complex problem, and we would like to incorporate this piece of code in our Erlang program. Suppose for example we have the following C functions that we would like to be able to call from Erlang.</p>
+ <codeinclude file="complex.c" tag="" type="none"></codeinclude>
+ <p>(For the sake of keeping the example as simple as possible, the functions are not very complicated in this case).</p>
+ <p>Preferably we would like to able to call <c>foo</c> and <c>bar</c> without having to bother about them actually being C functions.</p>
+ <pre>
+% Erlang code
+...
+Res = complex:foo(X),
+...</pre>
+ <p>The communication with C is hidden in the implementation of <c>complex.erl</c>. In the following chapters it is shown how this module can be implemented using the different interoperability mechanisms.</p>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
+