Re: libffi 3.2 and disruptive changes

[James Greenhalgh <james.greenhalgh@arm.com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:53:35PM +0000, Anthony Green wrote:
> 
> I'd like to move ahead with Richard's proposed changes for GO, complex
> types, and the numerous other clean ups he's proposed.
> 
> These changes will break msvc builds as well as iOS/OSX.
> 
> As long as we're breaking things, I'd like to use this opportunity to
> change the header files so we have a shared set of .h files in
> /usr/include.
> 
> Once things settle down from these changes, I'm hoping somebody can help
> with the msvc and iOS/OSX ports.
> 
> In preparation for all of these changes, I've made a quick 3.2 release.
> There were a few nice fixes that were sitting around in the tree, and
> I'm not sure how long this next round of hacking will take.
> 
> The 3.2 release should be in pretty good shape *except* for the win32/64
> msvc builds which are known to be broken.  See
> https://github.com/atgreen/libffi/issues/138 for details.

AArch64 linux builds are still broken (Alan Lawrence posted a patch at
  https://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2014/msg00091.html )

Could we please have that patch in for the 3.2 release?

Thanks,
James