libffi maintenance

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/05/16 14:51, Anthony Green wrote:
> In addition, I've granted write permission to three trusted and active
> hackers: Tom Tromey, Richard Henderson and Josh Triplett.  I plan on
> spending a little more time on libffi soon, but there's been a log jam
> of PRs over the past year, and I hope this change will help move
> things along.

We should have the conversation about what to do about the old and
stale libffi in the GCC tree.  It's caused me (and probably plenty of
others) a great deal of confusion this year, with various bug fixes
and improvements to merge one way or the other.  In particular, I
still don't really know where development happens: some of it happens
in GCC and some in libffi upstream.

I'd like libffi to be gone from the GCC repo, but that's probably not
possible.  I intend to delete libgcj, but I think that gccgo still
uses libffi.

Andrew.