[cffi-devel] Next release of CFFI with cffi-libffi

[Liam Healy]

There is a separate system cffi-libffi which needs libffi.  You may choose
not to load it.  However, there are changes to cffi itself as well, which
is why testing even without using libffi is a good idea.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Kalyanov Dmitry
<kalyanov.dmitry at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 15:13 -0400, Liam Healy wrote:
> > The system cffi-libffi allows calling functions with structures passed
> > and returned by value.  The cffi-libffi branch has been merged into
> > master.  Because bare structure reference is deprecated, the merge
> > affects a lot code using CFFI, not just those calling functions with
> > structures by value.  Expect to see many style warnings in code that
> > refers to bare structure names.  Please test and report
> > successes/problems.  We hope to have a new release of CFFI soon.
> >
> > See blog: http://lhealy.livejournal.com/2012/04/14/
>
> Does that mean that CFFI now requires libffi to be present on a system
> and that it will be loaded into lisp process?
>
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