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<h2 class="chapter" id="Missing-Features-1"><span>4 Missing Features<a class="copiable-link" href="#Missing-Features-1"> &para;</a></span></h2>

<p><code class="code">libffi</code> is missing a few features.  We welcome patches to add
support for these.
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<li>Variadic closures.

</li><li>There is no support for bit fields in structures.

</li><li>The &ldquo;raw&rdquo; API is undocumented.

</li><li>The Go API is undocumented.
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