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Sometimes, your Rust code may need to interact with code written in another language. To do this, Rust has a keyword,
extern
, that facilitates creating and using a Foreign Function Interface (FFI).
extern "C" { fn abs(input: i32) -> i32; } fn main() { unsafe { println!("Absolute value of -3 according to C: {}", abs(-3)); } }Run
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