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

[Rogelio M . Serrano Jr .]

On 2004-07-03 00:09:57 +0800 Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> 
wrote:

> > On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:28 PM, pageexec@freemail.hu wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > 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

Sounds like good news to me. Im going to use libffi then.