Re: Non-gcc releases

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Mar 25, 2004, at 11:37, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Etienne and I also discussed moving libffi out of the gcc tree and
> into its own repository somewhere.  I'd prefer not to do this.  My
> impression was that Etienne could find someone to do releases and that
> sort of thing, but that doing actual libffi maintenance was too much
> work.  One nice advantage of keeping the code in the gcc tree is that
> there are many platform and ABI experts around, so we can run the
> various bits of assembly code past them for approval.  I think getting
> this sort of review out-of-tree would be much more difficult.
>
> Anything else?


Another major advantage of keeping the libffi in GCC's sources is that
people who are trying to compile GCJ do not need another library to
compile and can get the latest version with gcj.  Another major 
advantage
is that I can move libobjc over to be using libffi without another 
library
for users to install.

Also I want to start using libffi for the connection between gcj and 
libobjc.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

PS. The libobjc here that I am talking about is the GNU runtime library 
for
Objective-C.  It is maintained as part of GCC just like libgcj but it 
can
be compiled separately from GCC just like libffi.