Re: [PATCH] win64 support for libffi (2/2)

[Timothy Wall <twalljava@dev.java.net>]

There seem to be some win32 patches in sourceware libffi that aren't  
in gcc/libffi.  Probably some other things as well.

On May 18, 2009, at 1:59 PM, NightStrike wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Dave Korn
> <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The libffi ABI has changed?  Are you sure?
>>>>   No, I'm not clear, I'm repeating something I was told second- 
>>>> hand:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-02/msg00051.html
>>>>
>>>>   Maybe I just meant that the API has changed, not the ABI?
>>>
>>> Neither have changed AFAIAA.  There are some updates and fixes in  
>>> gcc
>>> that are not yet in upstream libffi.
>>
>>  Ok, this is what I mean:
>>
>> admin@ubik /tmp/libffi/upstream
>> $ tail -2 /tmp/libffi/upstream/libffi-3.0.8/libtool-version
>> # CURRENT:REVISION:AGE
>> 5:9:0
>>
>> admin@ubik /tmp/libffi/upstream
>> $ tail -2 /gnu/gcc/gcc/libffi/libtool-version
>> # CURRENT:REVISION:AGE
>> 4:1:0
>
> Maybe it needs to be merged in both directions.