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Re: libffi maintenance within GCC?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at golang dot org>, Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, gcc Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:17:36 +0100
- Subject: Re: libffi maintenance within GCC?
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On 28/10/16 04:03, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com> wrote:
>> Is it still important that libffi be included in the GCC tree?
>
> [ Replying again as last message was bounced as HTML--sorry for the
> duplication.]
>
> libffi is used by libgo, for much the same reason as it was used by
> libjava, so it needs to come from somewhere.
It has been very convenient for GCC port maintainers to be able to
commit their patches to the GCC tree.
Andrew.