[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython (original) (raw)

Steve Dower Steve.Dower at microsoft.com
Thu Dec 18 20:17:04 CET 2014

Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:

After reading this http://bugs.python.org/issue23085 and remembering struggling having our own patches into cpython's libffi (but not into libffi itself), I wonder, is there any reason any more for libffi being included in CPython?

We use it for ctypes, so there's certainly still a need. Are you asking whether we need a fork of it as opposed to treating it like an external (like OpenSSL)?

Cheers, fijal

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