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

[Andrew Pinski]

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> On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:28 PM, pageexec@freemail.hu wrote:
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> > if libffi can accomplish the same things as ffcall but without
> > runtime code generation, then my preference would also be the
> > former, from a security point of view.
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> 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.

It is not officially part of gcc yet, there has been some motion to get it
officially maintained by the FSF but there is a problem with one developer
even though he has already signed his copy right over for gcc, he/she does
not want to sign over the one for libffi for some reason.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

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