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On 09/08/2009 13:19, Dave Korn wrote:
>    Ah, you won't have seen the recent thread.  GCC and libffi are now synced
> upstream.  The version numbering is a red-herring; there were only ever minor
> discrepancies between the two, it's not meant to be an API bump.

I had wondered about that; a diff of the two versions' headers didn't 
show anything warranting the bump.

> Hm, I'm not sure how (or even if for that matter) it ended up getting resolved,

 From a quick scan of the gcc patches list, it looks like they just 
synced the code between gcc and libffi.  But, AFAICS from gcc SVN, they 
didn't add a libffi.pc pkg-config file, which the standalone version 
provides and some libffi-dependent packages expect to find.  (Yes, I 
know how to override a pkg-config check, but still...)

 > but the upshot of it all is that we should be able to get away with just
> shipping one version between us.

That would be nice, but that won't be available until gcc-4.5, right? 
Until then, is the libffi in gcc-4.[34] work well enough on x86 to use 
in the meantime, particularly if the package explicitly depends on 
libffi-3.0?


Yaakov

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