Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Arfrever: I doubt anybody has contributed patches back, or that anybody is 
interested in doing so.

I personally don't see a problem in using an old libffi version, so I fail to 
see Benjamin's issue. Figuring out how exactly to use the system libffi is more 
hassle than keeping our own copy.

Please understand that ctypes is unmaintained. Anybody actively taking over 
maintenance of ctypes would have to decide on how integration with libffi is 
supposed to work. Without a maintainer, falling back to the sytem libffi is a 
too high risk, IMO, since this will certainly produce tons of new bug reports, 
with nobody prepared to deal with them.

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