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From: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
To: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
Cc: gcc Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
		"libffi-discuss@sourceware.org" <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>,
	Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Subject: Re: libffi maintenance within GCC?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxje5-WNcJnWkfK4QyOf0=gsDySxmJ6vU=HnxdjMertyDjMfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48a433ca-9f6d-3b5b-9485-64261d812b66@ubuntu.com>

Is it still important that libffi be included in the GCC tree?

AG


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> With the removal of libgcj, the only user of libffi in GCC is libgo, however
> there is now no maintainer listed anymore for libffi in the MAINTAINERS file,
> and the libffi subdir is a bit outdated compared to the libffi upstream
> repository (got aware of this by libffi issue #197).  Who would be responsible
> now to update / review libffi patches, just the global reviewers, or should
> libffi be maintained by the libgo maintainers?
>
> Matthias

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27 12:56 Matthias Klose
2016-10-27 13:09 ` Anthony Green [this message]
2016-10-28  3:03   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2016-10-28  8:17     ` Andrew Haley
2016-10-27 13:59 ` Andrew Haley

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