[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 green at redhat.com  2008-02-07 14:11 EST -------
(In reply to comment #13)
> (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?

Not easily.  Most of this discussion was in private email with rms and one or
two of the SC members.  My email from those days is lost in an unsalvageable
Outlook folder.  If you check with rms he will verify my claim. 

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

I don't know, but it's certainly no secret.  Do you really think anybody would
have a problem with it?  I've certainly been encouraged to release a new
unbundled libffi release by GCC developers in the past.

I agree, however, that we wouldn't be having this conversation if the GCC
project installed libffi and supported the ffi.h interface for its users. 
AFAICT there are no plans to do this.   Even if there were, it certainly won't
happen in a timeframe that works for spot.


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