Re: [PATCH] [please commit] libffi reorg [take 4]

[Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > > Apart from this change, there are certainly other problems when using
> > > libffi from the GCC tree with vendor compilers (as I discovered when I
> > > tried testing it with cc on IRIX 6 and Tru64 UNIX).  I'll probably work
>
> on
>
> > > re-enabling this ability in the future.
>
>
> Actually, I seem to understand this is about supporting the vendor's
> assembler rather than the vendor's compiler.  Using gas together with the
> vendor cc should work (there are remarks about computing values directly
> because of the deficiencies IRIX assembler).  And anyway I don't think it
> ever worked, it even made reference to non-existing files.
>
> I recall that either Anthony or Tom ok'ed dropping MIPS_SGI.

Well, it then should be on the MIPS people to bring such a tested patch.

> > Your argument seems ok to me. Afaik libffi is also used outside from
> > gcc. So it seems reasonable to me to keep support for other compilers if
> > possible.
>
>
> Are there people (apart from me...) that are using CVS libffi in other
> projects?

E.g: http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/

Uses libffi on OS-X.

Andreas