[Bug 431633] Review Request: libffi - High level programming interface to various calling conventions

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Summary: Review Request: libffi - High level programming interface to various calling conventions


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431633





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2008-02-07 07:05 EST -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > Unlike zlib, the upstream for libffi is in GCC - Otherwise Spot would not have
> > to lift the code from GCC's code base.
> 
> It's true that for the past 10 years virtually all development has happened
> within the GCC project.  However, the FSF has always been clear that libffi is
> not part of GCC.
Can you provide any evidence for this statement?

Being a GCC developer myself I have never heard about any such statement, I knew
there had your libffi project before, .. it had been absorbed by GCC like many
other comparable projects, causing its former upstream to die.

>  It is just distributed along with GCC for convenience.  GCC
> has never installed libffi as a user library.
A fact which could easily be changed.

>  It is only used to enable libgcj.

Check libffi's ChangeLog and you will probably noticed that I know about this.

It's one reason why I think applications still using libffi outside of GCC
probably had been based on your ancient libffi-1.2 or have lifted the code from GCC.

>  Given libffi's continued use outside of the GCC project, I recently decided to
> start making independent libffi releases again.  See this thread:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2008/msg00000.html
Of cause it's your liberty to resume the work you abandoned many years ago and
to launch a fork based on GCC's source.

I wonder if GCC-SC knows about your decision and what they think about it.


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