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

[Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>]

I've just published libffi 3.4.0 release candidate 2.  You can download and
test from here: https://github.com/libffi/libffi/releases/tag/v3.4.0-rc2

Thanks for all of the last-minute changes.  Any additional feedback would
be greatly appreciated!

AG

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com> wrote:

> I've just published libffi 3.4 release candidate 1.  You can download and
> test from here:
> https://github.com/libffi/libffi/releases/tag/v3.4-rc1
>
> I'd appreciate any feedback and hope to make the final release on Monday
> at the latest.
>
> AG
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:50 PM Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
> 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.
>>
>>