Use this functionality with extreme care.
A native function is executed as a direct extension of the native code of the VM. Execution is not made in a safe environment. The VM ca
erl_nif
erl_nif
C library
erl_nif
Library summary
API functions for an Erlang NIF library.
Description
A NIF library contains native implementation of some functions of an Erlang module. The native implemented functions (NIFs) are called like any other functions without any difference to the caller. Each NIF must have an implementation in Erlang that is invoked if the function is called before the NIF library is successfully loaded. A typical such stub implementation is to throw an exception. But it can also be used as a fallback implementation if the NIF library is not implemented for some architecture.
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