[Python-Dev] ctypes module (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 14:17:24 CEST 2015

for the record libffi supports itanium officially (but as usual I'm very skeptical how well it works on less used platforms) https://sourceware.org/libffi/

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 8 April 2015 at 20:36, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

I presume the reason was that noone wants to maintain code for the case where there are no buildbots available and there is no development time available. You are free to put back in the files and see if they work (they might not), but such things are usually removed if they're a maintenance burden. I would be happy to assist you with finding someone willing to do commercial maintenance of ctypes for itanium, but asking python devs to do it for free is a bit too much. As a point of reference, even Red Hat dropped Itanium support for RHEL6+ - you have to go all the way back to RHEL5 to find a version we still support running on Itanium. For most of CPython, keeping it running on arbitrary architectures often isn't too difficult, as libc abstracts away a lot of the hardware details. libffi (and hence ctypes) are notable exceptions to that :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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