On 9/11/19 1:12 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2019-08-08 16:22, Jeff Law wrote: >> On 8/8/19 4:18 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> >>> It is used by libgo, but it seems to be the last user. >> Ah, yes, I should have remembered libgo. And it links via >> ../../blahblah. Thanks for digging into it. >> >> So, yea, we need it. So I think the best path forward is to just resync >> everything to the upstream master. > > I have noticed that parisc and riscv support have commits that haven't > been propagated on the upstream libffi side. Things might be easier to > sync if those changes get merged on the libffi side. > FWIW, I bugged Anthony & DJ about libffi a bit during our team meetings earlier this week. Essentially my goal was to emphasize to them that getting a release out the door was desperately needed.
I doubt that changes any of the calculus here. At least according out the ChangeLog we've only backported RISC-V bits from upstream. It's not as clear for the PA bits John checked in a few years ago. jeff