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diff --git a/ext/ffi_c/libffi/README b/ext/ffi_c/libffi/README index 297c044..5acc19d 100644 --- a/ext/ffi_c/libffi/README +++ b/ext/ffi_c/libffi/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Status ====== -libffi-3.0.10 was released on August 23, 2011. Check the libffi web +libffi-3.2.1 was released on November 12, 2014. Check the libffi web page for updates: <URL:http://sourceware.org/libffi/>. @@ -43,51 +43,78 @@ Libffi has been ported to many different platforms. For specific configuration details and testing status, please refer to the wiki page here: - http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.0.10 + http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.2 At the time of release, the following basic configurations have been tested: -|--------------+------------------| -| Architecture | Operating System | -|--------------+------------------| -| Alpha | Linux | -| Alpha | Tru64 | -| ARM | Linux | -| ARM | iOS | -| AVR32 | Linux | -| HPPA | HPUX | -| IA-64 | Linux | -| M68K | RTEMS | -| MIPS | IRIX | -| MIPS | Linux | -| MIPS | RTEMS | -| MIPS64 | Linux | -| PowerPC | Linux | -| PowerPC | Mac OSX | -| PowerPC | FreeBSD | -| PowerPC64 | Linux | -| S390 | Linux | -| S390X | Linux | -| SPARC | Linux | -| SPARC | Solaris | -| SPARC64 | Linux | -| SPARC64 | FreeBSD | -| X86 | FreeBSD | -| X86 | Interix | -| X86 | kFreeBSD | -| X86 | Linux | -| X86 | Mac OSX | -| X86 | OpenBSD | -| X86 | OS/2 | -| X86 | Solaris | -| X86 | Windows/Cygwin | -| X86 | Windows/MingW | -| X86-64 | FreeBSD | -| X86-64 | Linux | -| X86-64 | OpenBSD | -| X86-64 | Windows/MingW | -|--------------+------------------| +|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------| +| Architecture | Operating System | Compiler | +|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------| +| AArch64 (ARM64) | iOS | Clang | +| AArch64 | Linux | GCC | +| Alpha | Linux | GCC | +| Alpha | Tru64 | GCC | +| ARC | Linux | GCC | +| ARM | Linux | GCC | +| ARM | iOS | GCC | +| AVR32 | Linux | GCC | +| Blackfin | uClinux | GCC | +| HPPA | HPUX | GCC | +| IA-64 | Linux | GCC | +| M68K | FreeMiNT | GCC | +| M68K | Linux | GCC | +| M68K | RTEMS | GCC | +| M88K | OpenBSD/mvme88k | GCC | +| Meta | Linux | GCC | +| MicroBlaze | Linux | GCC | +| MIPS | IRIX | GCC | +| MIPS | Linux | GCC | +| MIPS | RTEMS | GCC | +| MIPS64 | Linux | GCC | +| Moxie | Bare metal | GCC | +| Nios II | Linux | GCC | +| OpenRISC | Linux | GCC | +| PowerPC 32-bit | AIX | IBM XL C | +| PowerPC 64-bit | AIX | IBM XL C | +| PowerPC | AMIGA | GCC | +| PowerPC | Linux | GCC | +| PowerPC | Mac OSX | GCC | +| PowerPC | FreeBSD | GCC | +| PowerPC 64-bit | FreeBSD | GCC | +| PowerPC 64-bit | Linux ELFv1 | GCC | +| PowerPC 64-bit | Linux ELFv2 | GCC | +| S390 | Linux | GCC | +| S390X | Linux | GCC | +| SPARC | Linux | GCC | +| SPARC | Solaris | GCC | +| SPARC | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C | +| SPARC64 | Linux | GCC | +| SPARC64 | FreeBSD | GCC | +| SPARC64 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C | +| TILE-Gx/TILEPro | Linux | GCC | +| VAX | OpenBSD/vax | GCC | +| X86 | FreeBSD | GCC | +| X86 | GNU HURD | GCC | +| X86 | Interix | GCC | +| X86 | kFreeBSD | GCC | +| X86 | Linux | GCC | +| X86 | Mac OSX | GCC | +| X86 | OpenBSD | GCC | +| X86 | OS/2 | GCC | +| X86 | Solaris | GCC | +| X86 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C | +| X86 | Windows/Cygwin | GCC | +| X86 | Windows/MingW | GCC | +| X86-64 | FreeBSD | GCC | +| X86-64 | Linux | GCC | +| X86-64 | Linux/x32 | GCC | +| X86-64 | OpenBSD | GCC | +| X86-64 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C | +| X86-64 | Windows/Cygwin | GCC | +| X86-64 | Windows/MingW | GCC | +| Xtensa | Linux | GCC | +|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------| Please send additional platform test results to libffi-discuss@sourceware.org and feel free to update the wiki page @@ -101,6 +128,9 @@ system. Go to the directory you wish to build libffi in and run the "configure" program found in the root directory of the libffi source distribution. +If you're building libffi directly from version control, configure won't +exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first. + You may want to tell configure where to install the libffi library and header files. To do that, use the --prefix configure switch. Libffi will install under /usr/local by default. @@ -118,20 +148,28 @@ It's also possible to build libffi on Windows platforms with Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler. In this case, use the msvcc.sh wrapper script during configuration like so: -path/to/configure CC=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP=\"cl -nologo -EP\" +path/to/configure CC=path/to/msvcc.sh CXX=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP="cl -nologo -EP" + +For 64-bit Windows builds, use CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64" and +CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64". You may also need to specify --build +appropriately. + +It is also possible to build libffi on Windows platforms with the LLVM +project's clang-cl compiler, like below: + +path/to/configure CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -clang-cl" CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -clang-cl" LD=link CPP="clang-cl -EP" -For 64-bit Windows builds, use CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64". -You may also need to specify --build appropriately. When building with MSVC -under a MingW environment, you may need to remove the line in configure -that sets 'fix_srcfile_path' to a 'cygpath' command. ('cygpath' is not -present in MingW, and is not required when using MingW-style paths.) +When building with MSVC under a MingW environment, you may need to +remove the line in configure that sets 'fix_srcfile_path' to a 'cygpath' +command. ('cygpath' is not present in MingW, and is not required when +using MingW-style paths.) -For iOS builds, refer to the build-ios.sh script for guidance. +For iOS builds, the 'libffi.xcodeproj' Xcode project is available. Configure has many other options. Use "configure --help" to see them all. Once configure has finished, type "make". Note that you must be using -GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu. +GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/make . To ensure that libffi is working as advertised, type "make check". This will require that you have DejaGNU installed. @@ -142,7 +180,64 @@ To install the library and header files, type "make install". History ======= -See the ChangeLog files for details. +See the git log for details at http://github.com/atgreen/libffi. + +3.2.1 Nov-12-14 + Build fix for non-iOS AArch64 targets. + +3.2 Nov-11-14 + Add C99 Complex Type support (currently only supported on + s390). + Add support for PASCAL and REGISTER calling conventions on x86 + Windows/Linux. + Add OpenRISC and Cygwin-64 support. + Bug fixes. + +3.1 May-19-14 + Add AArch64 (ARM64) iOS support. + Add Nios II support. + Add m88k and DEC VAX support. + Add support for stdcall, thiscall, and fastcall on non-Windows + 32-bit x86 targets such as Linux. + Various Android, MIPS N32, x86, FreeBSD and UltraSPARC IIi + fixes. + Make the testsuite more robust: eliminate several spurious + failures, and respect the $CC and $CXX environment variables. + Archive off the manually maintained ChangeLog in favor of git + log. + +3.0.13 Mar-17-13 + Add Meta support. + Add missing Moxie bits. + Fix stack alignment bug on 32-bit x86. + Build fix for m68000 targets. + Build fix for soft-float Power targets. + Fix the install dir location for some platforms when building + with GCC (OS X, Solaris). + Fix Cygwin regression. + +3.0.12 Feb-11-13 + Add Moxie support. + Add AArch64 support. + Add Blackfin support. + Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support. + Add MicroBlaze support. + Add Xtensa support. + Add support for PaX enabled kernels with MPROTECT. + Add support for native vendor compilers on + Solaris and AIX. + Work around LLVM/GCC interoperability issue on x86_64. + +3.0.11 Apr-11-12 + Lots of build fixes. + Add support for variadic functions (ffi_prep_cif_var). + Add Linux/x32 support. + Add thiscall, fastcall and MSVC cdecl support on Windows. + Add Amiga and newer MacOS support. + Add m68k FreeMiNT support. + Integration with iOS' xcode build tools. + Fix Octeon and MC68881 support. + Fix code pessimizations. 3.0.10 Aug-23-11 Add support for Apple's iOS. @@ -286,7 +381,7 @@ See the ChangeLog files for details. Authors & Credits ================= -libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>. +libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>. The developers of the GNU Compiler Collection project have made innumerable valuable contributions. See the ChangeLog file for @@ -301,15 +396,22 @@ Thorup. Major processor architecture ports were contributed by the following developers: +aarch64 Marcus Shawcroft, James Greenhalgh alpha Richard Henderson arm Raffaele Sena +blackfin Alexandre Keunecke I. de Mendonca cris Simon Posnjak, Hans-Peter Nilsson frv Anthony Green ia64 Hans Boehm m32r Kazuhiro Inaoka m68k Andreas Schwab +m88k Miod Vallat +microblaze Nathan Rossi mips Anthony Green, Casey Marshall mips64 David Daney +moxie Anthony Green +nios ii Sandra Loosemore +openrisc Sebastian Macke pa Randolph Chung, Dave Anglin, Andreas Tobler powerpc Geoffrey Keating, Andreas Tobler, David Edelsohn, John Hornkvist @@ -318,8 +420,11 @@ s390 Gerhard Tonn, Ulrich Weigand sh Kaz Kojima sh64 Kaz Kojima sparc Anthony Green, Gordon Irlam +tile-gx/tilepro Walter Lee +vax Miod Vallat x86 Anthony Green, Jon Beniston x86-64 Bo Thorsen +xtensa Chris Zankel Jesper Skov and Andrew Haley both did more than their fair share of stepping through the code and tracking down bugs. |