Re: Aiming for a libffi release in the next two weeks

[Jeff Law <jlaw@tachyum.com>]

On 6/15/2021 1:50 PM, Anthony Green wrote:
> DJ brought to my attention the fact that we'll be missing important 
> release windows for Fedora and downstream distros if we don't get 
> something out the door in the next two weeks. And I'm very excited 
> about the improvements targeted for this release -- Madhavan's static 
> trampoline work in particular.
>
> There are a number of PR and Issues that have been sitting around for 
> a while.  Please bump them if you think they are important.
>
> One area I'd like some clarity on is "apple silicon" support.  Not 
> being a Mac user, I'm looking at Apple and Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 
> for guidance here.  There's a big PR WIP sitting on github.
>
> Also.. travis-ci testing for MacOS hasn't been working for a long time 
> thanks to homebrew timeouts.  Something got really slow here.   Does 
> anybody have insight into this?
>
> As always, thank you for your contributions and patience. Big shout 
> out to DJ for his recent efforts.
>
> AG
>
> In the queue for 3.4...
>
>         Add static trampoline support for Linux on x86_64 and ARM64.
>         Add support for Alibaba's CSKY architecture.
>         Add support for Kalray's KVX architecture.
>         Add support for Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).
>         Add support for ARM Pointer Authentication (PA).
>         Fix 32-bit PPC regression.
>         Fix MIPS soft-float problem.
>         Fox x86-64 nested struct varargs passing problem.
>         Enable tmpdir override with the $LIBFFI_TMPDIR environment 
> variable.
>         Enable compatibility with MSVC runtime stack checking.
>         Reject float and small integer argument in ffi_prep_cif_var().
>           Callers must promote these types themselves.
Sounds good.  I know we'd talked about trying to get support Tachyum's 
processor into the next release, but we're held up on some internal 
stuff.  So don't delay anything on our behalf.


Jeff