10  Interfacing Prolog and C

• Introduction
• Including and using gprolog.h
• Calling C from Prolog
  • Introduction
  • foreign/2 directive
  • The C function
  • Input arguments
  • Output arguments
  • Input/output arguments
  • Writing non-deterministic C code
  • Example: input and output arguments
  • Example: non-deterministic code
  • Example: input/output arguments
• Manipulating Prolog terms
  • Introduction
  • Managing Prolog atoms
  • Reading Prolog terms
  • Unifying Prolog terms
  • Creating Prolog terms
  • Testing the type of Prolog terms
  • Comparing Prolog terms
  • Term processing
  • Comparing and evaluating arithmetic expressions
• Raising Prolog errors
  • Managing the error context
  • Instantiation error
  • Uninstantiation error
  • Type error
  • Domain error
  • Existence error
  • Permission error
  • Representation error
  • Evaluation error
  • Resource error
  • Syntax error
  • System error
• Calling Prolog from C
  • Introduction
  • Example: my_call/1 - a call/1 clone
  • Example: recovering the list of all operators
• Defining a new C main() function
  • Example: asking for ancestors