well, the problem is essentially that libffi gets patched (e.g. for ARM) and it does not make it's way to CPython quickly. This is unlikely to be a security issue (for a variety of reasons, including ctypes), but it's still an issue I think. Segfaults related to e.g. stack alignment are hard to debug On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, at 14:13, 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? > > It has some sort of Windows related patches. No one seems to know > whether they're still needed for newer libffi. Unfortunately, ctypes > doesn't currently have a maintainer.
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