From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
Cc: s.mesoraca16@gmail.com, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
arigo@tunes.org, landonf@freebsd.org,
libffi-discuss <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Another libffi ABI change and another release
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:10:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eepfsmas.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2428cec-b856-e1c7-8596-c24b1c76501d@ubuntu.com> (Matthias Klose's message of "Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:03:43 +0200")
* Matthias Klose:
> On 7/13/20 12:47 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Matthias Klose:
>>
>>> On 2/25/20 6:05 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>> Anthony> Yes, some of them were related to trampoline layouts, which aren't relevant
>>>> Anthony> if we go this route...
>>>> Anthony> http://sourceware-org.1504.n7.nabble.com/Crashes-of-libffi-when-using-W-X-memory-and-forks-td412729.html
>>>> Anthony> ...which is what I'd like to do.
>>>>
>>>> The ones I was thinking of were in this thread
>>>>
>>>> https://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2015/msg00090.html
>>>>
>>>> But AFAIK there aren't patches for any of these ideas.
>>>
>>> I have now the request to enable CET in a distro, and before bumping
>>> the soname myself, or invent an arbitrary soname which won't be used
>>> by upstream, I'd like to ask if an upstream release could be cut now,
>>> without repeating the multi-year release process we had with libffi
>>> 3.3.
>>
>> Which soname do you use right now?
>
> libffi.so.7, as found in the libffi 3.3 release.
I see. My team at Red Hat has it on our to-do list to produce an
ABI-compatible libffi.so.6 with CET support, but that won't help you.
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-13 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 1:07 Anthony Green
2020-02-24 23:21 ` Tom Tromey
2020-02-24 23:31 ` Anthony Green
2020-02-25 17:05 ` Tom Tromey
2020-07-13 9:58 ` Matthias Klose
2020-07-13 10:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-13 11:03 ` Matthias Klose
2020-07-13 11:10 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-11-11 14:40 ` Matthias Klose
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