Libffi merge [Was Re: [patch] powerpc libffi Net/FreeBSD ]

[Andrew Haley]

Jack Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:39:56AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> My first wodge of changes will be only the substantive differences
>> in the library itself: later I'll get to the testsuite and the rest.
>> To begin with, I'm just going to update upstream libffi with the gcc
>> changes, and then see how much difference there is.  I'm guessing not
>> much.
>>
>> Questions for Anthony Green:
>>
>> 1.  I don't understand the libffi version numbers.  Can you give
>> me any explanations?  It seems to be 3.0.8 upstream but 2.1 in gcc,
>> but this doesn't seem in any way to correspond with reality.
>>
>> 2.  What's with the ChangeLog.libffi and ChangeLog.libgcj files?

>     Has there been any code exchange between the upstream libffi and
> the forked libffi that PyObjC uses? I was told the following by Bill Bumgarner
> at Apple a couple years back....

I certainly haven't done any.

Of course, any improvements from PyObjC would be considered on their merits,
just like any other submissions.

Andrew.