All,
I am sponsoring this fast track for Laszlo (Laca) Peter from
the JDS Desktop team. The case directory contains this proposal.
I have set the timeout for Friday, August 29th, 2008.
This project proposes to integrate the Foreign Function Interface
library (libffi) into a Patch release of Solaris. Libffi facilitates
calling code written in one language from code written in another
language. libffi is an imported dependency for Python 2.5 (see
PSARC/2008/543).
Thanks,
John
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Title: libffi - Foreign Function Interface library
Case: PSARC/2008/542
Submitter: Laszlo Peter
Owner: John Fischer
Timeout: 08/29/2008
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Project/Component Working Name:
libffi - Foreign Function Interface library
1.2 Purpose
The Foreign Function Interface library facilitates calling code
written in one language from code written in another language.
See http://sourceware.org/libffi/ for more information.
The purpose of including it in OpenSolaris is the ctypes Python
modules. The ctypes module (in Python 2.5 and later) provides
C compatible data types, and allows to call functions in shared
libraries. Ctypes uses libffi.
See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html for more
information about ctypes.
2.0 Interfaces
2.2 Imported Interfaces
Interface Classification Comments
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libgcc_s.so.1 Volatile PSARC/2004/742
2.3 Exported Interfaces
Interface Classification Comments
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/usr/lib/libffi.so.5 Volatile
/usr/lib/$MACH64/libffi.so.5 Volatile
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libffi.pc Uncommitted libffi pkg-config file
/usr/lib/$MACH64/pkgconfig/ libffi pkg-config file
libffi.pc Uncommitted for 64-bit builds
