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### 2.6 Closure Example

A trivial example that creates a new `puts` by binding `fputs` with `stdout`.

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <ffi.h>

    /* Acts like puts with the file given at time of enclosure. */
    void puts_binding(ffi_cif *cif, void *ret, void* args[],
                      void *stream)
    {
      *(ffi_arg *)ret = fputs(*(char **)args[0], (FILE *)stream);
    }

    typedef int (*puts_t)(char *);

    int main()
    {
      ffi_cif cif;
      ffi_type *args[1];
      ffi_closure *closure;

      void *bound_puts;
      int rc;

      /* Allocate closure and bound_puts */
      closure = ffi_closure_alloc(sizeof(ffi_closure), &bound_puts);

      if (closure)
        {
          /* Initialize the argument info vectors */
          args[0] = &ffi_type_pointer;

          /* Initialize the cif */
          if (ffi_prep_cif(&cif, FFI_DEFAULT_ABI, 1,
                           &ffi_type_sint, args) == FFI_OK)
            {
              /* Initialize the closure, setting stream to stdout */
              if (ffi_prep_closure_loc(closure, &cif, puts_binding,
                                       stdout, bound_puts) == FFI_OK)
                {
                  rc = ((puts_t)bound_puts)("Hello World!");
                  /* rc now holds the result of the call to fputs */
                }
            }
        }

      /* Deallocate both closure, and bound_puts */
      ffi_closure_free(closure);

      return 0;
    }