From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45954 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 2016 03:03:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 45924 invoked by uid 89); 28 Oct 2016 03:03:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=dokoubuntucom, D*ubuntu.com, U*doko, doko@ubuntu.com X-HELO: mail-yw0-f171.google.com Received: from mail-yw0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f171.google.com) (209.85.161.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:03:02 +0000 Received: by mail-yw0-f171.google.com with SMTP id w3so67021799ywg.1 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:03:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=xC2M0WJ1RY/eX7U/AsOE8gWbeotEno9/6qT5p1KqI/s=; b=NGZAsiv6UfTCmVqHLGoT6VN9CYdhgpQqSpUqs6Nu07+C23UaICEFyYPXJZra4fx/w4 FfTV2Y0+siJmfy6xvPOYuo228X41bFyEVBXw+V/dYe9IGuj50p0qkfNFcYYJQRkZ/G/B 3pP3g5LSDVA5GGl3sJrNtTxpsTt+kauMRyIb7tw2Y5i1FgI2kXuQ+D/wOx9NfeJYVhKn Rhyf7OEPMDMiW316Tti7cSYJOvfzrbWjaM/GsGND/ONR2qHK+G5S5vqclT1NA/ZWue3s oXcdZqwmkbpxMfEFRSTFDpEQwBjw+EgNlRQtI0iv23Kt8e7Pzy47tkX1WcY46itOkPKo okGg== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvczRyAOymziIDoV0r6Hyw+QdNyqVuT6DlY4RTliZ0eDSOK+Ri0fE+TIKL36WsH9grQGj0XD+rUQcYoQZc+b X-Received: by 10.129.39.4 with SMTP id n4mr11466333ywn.2.1477623780754; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:03:00 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.129.145.70 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:03:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <48a433ca-9f6d-3b5b-9485-64261d812b66@ubuntu.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: libffi maintenance within GCC? To: Anthony Green Cc: Matthias Klose , gcc Development , "libffi-discuss@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2016/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Anthony Green wrote: > Is it still important that libffi be included in the GCC tree? [ Replying again as last message was bounced as HTML--sorry for the duplication.] libffi is used by libgo, for much the same reason as it was used by libjava, so it needs to come from somewhere. Ian > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Matthias Klose 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