> On 03 Mar 2016, at 21:58, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx: This is a "lightly patched" copy from > somewhere before libffi-2.0, probably. It has barely been touched > since 2009. I've been given to understand that it has modifications > necessary to allow building fat binaries on OSX (Ned or Ronald would > know better than I), but I don't know if such modifications may have > made it upstream since pre-2.0. This one is used for all OSX builds > that don't use `--with-system-ffi`.
libffi_osx is a copy of the variant of libffi used by PyObjC, which was forked from libffi a long while ago (at the latest around the time OSX started supporting Intel processors, and probably earlier). I don’t know if upstream libffi is good enough these days, this fork not only contains patches to make it easier to build fat binaries, but also contains a number of bug fixes that weren’t upstream at the time (mostly needed to support Apple’s interpretation of the x86_64 calling conventions in clang). Ronald _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
