Re: [Fwd: [gentoo-security] pax and objc]

[Riccardo Mottola]

on 7/2/04 5:41 PM, Adam Fedor at fedor@doc.com wrote:

> libffi is part of gcc now and is actively developed, so that's probably
> a good reason to start preferring it over ffcall in GNUstep.
> Particularly if it solves this problem. Hopefully some one can tell us
> that for sure.

libffi is a big mess, it has trouble compiling on older gcc's and on sparc
architectures and it supports less architectures than ffcall.

Ffcall works well and I never had problems with it, while I had trouble with
libffi wehn doing some java work.

I think Bruno Haible still maintains ffcall from time to time, while libffi
is for now just "parked" inside gcc. Little work has been done.

Also libffi is currently inside the gcc trree, so even if  with some tricks
you can compile it alone, you still need all the top-level of the gcc tree.
Ffcall on the other hand is a nice, clean, idnependent library.

Maybe in the futre the situation will change.

-R