On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, at 14:50, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> well, the problem is essentially that libffi gets patched (e.g. for
> ARM) and it does not make it's way to CPython quickly. This is
> unlikely to be a security issue (for a variety of reasons, including
> ctypes), but it's still an issue I think. Segfaults related to e.g.
> stack alignment are hard to debug

Certainly it's a suboptimal situation, but resolving it requires someone
to figure out whether we still need/want whatever patches are in there.
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