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Branch: pkgsrc-2020Q1, Version: 3.3nb2, Package name: libffi-3.3nb2, Maintainer: asau

The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming
interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to
call any function specified by a call interface description at
run-time.

Some programs may not know at the time of compilation what arguments
are to be passed to a function. For instance, an interpreter may be
told at run-time about the number and types of arguments used to call
a given function. Libffi can be used in such programs to provide a
bridge from the interpreter program to compiled code.

Ffi stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function
interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code
written in one language to call code written in another language. The
libffi library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent
layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. A layer must
exist above libffi that handles type conversions for values passed
between the two languages.

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/ (Download)

SHA1: 8df6cb570c8d6596a67d1c0773bf00650154f7aa
RMD160: 2cd43b66d792f1bad76df2e19a8411beacfcb8e0
Filesize: 1274.869 KB

Version history: (Expand)

(2020-05-10) Updated to version: libffi-3.3nb2
(2020-04-20) Package has been reborn
(2020-04-19) Package added to pkgsrc.se, version libffi-3.3nb1 (created)

CVS history: (Expand)

2020-05-10 15:29:56 by Benny Siegert | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated

Log message:
Pullup ticket #6187 - requested by tnn
devel/libffi: NetBSD/evbarm build fix

Revisions pulled up:
- devel/libffi/Makefile                                         1.40
- devel/libffi/distinfo                                         1.53
- devel/libffi/patches/patch-src_arm_sysv.S                     1.9

---
   Module Name:	pkgsrc
   Committed By:	tnn
   Date:		Wed Apr  8 13:40:11 UTC 2020

   Modified Files:
   	pkgsrc/devel/libffi: Makefile distinfo
   Added Files:
   	pkgsrc/devel/libffi/patches: patch-src_arm_sysv.S

   Log message:
   libffi: fix ARM build

   Restore ifdef toggling .eh_frame exception unwinding.
   Seems to have been lost in previous update. PR pkg/55107. Bump.