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<h4 class="subsection">2.3.2 Structures</h4>

<p>Although &lsquo;<samp>libffi</samp>&rsquo; has no special support for unions or
bit-fields, it is perfectly happy passing structures back and forth.
You must first describe the structure to &lsquo;<samp>libffi</samp>&rsquo; by creating a
new <code>ffi_type</code> object for it.
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<dt><a name="index-ffi_005ftype-1"></a>Data type: <strong>ffi_type</strong></dt>
<dd><p>The <code>ffi_type</code> has the following members:
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<dt><code>size_t size</code></dt>
<dd><p>This is set by <code>libffi</code>; you should initialize it to zero.
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<dt><code>unsigned short alignment</code></dt>
<dd><p>This is set by <code>libffi</code>; you should initialize it to zero.
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<dt><code>unsigned short type</code></dt>
<dd><p>For a structure, this should be set to <code>FFI_TYPE_STRUCT</code>.
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<dt><code>ffi_type **elements</code></dt>
<dd><p>This is a &lsquo;<samp>NULL</samp>&rsquo;-terminated array of pointers to <code>ffi_type</code>
objects.  There is one element per field of the struct.
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