[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython
Ned Deily
nad at acm.org
Thu Mar 12 19:35:55 CET 2015
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> For UNIX OSs we could probably rely on the system libffi then. What's the
> situation on OS X? Anyone know if it has libffi, or would be need to be
> pulled in to be used like on Windows?
Ronald (in http://bugs.python.org/issue23534):
"On OSX the internal copy of libffi that's used is based on the one in
PyObjC, which in turn is based on the version of libffi on
opensource.apple.com (IIRC with some small patches that fix minor issues
found by the PyObjC testsuite)."
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Ned Deily,
nad at acm.org
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