Fwd: Announcing libffi 3.0

[Andrew Pinski]

FYI.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anthony Green <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Subject: Announcing libffi 3.0
To: address@hidden


I'm pleased to announce a software release 10 years in the
 making:


                          libffi
 3.0



 libffi is a portable foreign function interface
 library.


 The last release of libffi, version 1.2, was released almost a
 decade
 ago in October, 1998.  Shortly thereafter we started maintaining
 it
 within the GCC source repository along with the help of the
 GCC
 developers.  Libffi's primary customer at the time was the GNU
 java
 runtime library, libgcj, and libffi benefited tremendously from
 the
 contributions of the GCC
 community[1].




 However...



 Over the course of the last decade, and especially within the
 past
 couple of years, many projects have picked up the old libffi
 release
 or extracted it from the GCC sources for their own purposes[2].
 There
 now exist a multitude of libffi forks, and for no good reason
 other
 than there not being independent stand-alone libffi
 releases.


 libffi 3.0 represents the resumption of regular,
 independent,
 stand-alone releases of libffi for all to
 consume.



 libffi 3.0 is the result of bundling the latest libffi sources
 from
 the GCC tree along with new configury, enhancements, documentation
 and
 testing.



 libffi will continue to be maintained in both the GCC tree as well
 as
 the original libffi cvs repository.  Patches are welcome to
 either
 project, as we intend to perform two-way merges between the trees.

 Visit the libffi project site at http://sourceware.org/libffi
 for
 details.



 Download source release
 here:




 ftp://sourceware.org:/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.0.tar.gz

 Enjoy...

 Anthony Green
 address@hidden

 [1] A special "thank you" goes out to the GCC hackers who
 contributed
    to libffi all these years.  libffi is widely used (see
 below)
    entirely thanks to your continued efforts.


 [2] A survey of libffi
 users/bundlers/forkers:


 http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/81-libffi-users.html