Re: libffi maintenance

[Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>]

On 05/02/2016 09:41 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 02/05/16 14:51, Anthony Green wrote:
>> In addition, I've granted write permission to three trusted and active
>> hackers: Tom Tromey, Richard Henderson and Josh Triplett.  I plan on
>> spending a little more time on libffi soon, but there's been a log jam
>> of PRs over the past year, and I hope this change will help move
>> things along.
>
> We should have the conversation about what to do about the old and
> stale libffi in the GCC tree.  It's caused me (and probably plenty of
> others) a great deal of confusion this year, with various bug fixes
> and improvements to merge one way or the other.  In particular, I
> still don't really know where development happens: some of it happens
> in GCC and some in libffi upstream.
>
> I'd like libffi to be gone from the GCC repo, but that's probably not
> possible.  I intend to delete libgcj, but I think that gccgo still
> uses libffi.

Indeed.  But in causing gccgo to use libffi, I needed to make extensions to 
libffi (ffi_call_go etc).  The two repos were synced at that time, modulo the 
configure stuff.


r~