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diff --git a/.pc/xcode/README b/.pc/xcode/README deleted file mode 100644 index 495fded..0000000 --- a/.pc/xcode/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,357 +0,0 @@ -Status -====== - -libffi-3.0.12 was released on *****************. Check the libffi web -page for updates: <URL:http://sourceware.org/libffi/>. - - -What is libffi? -=============== - -Compilers for high level languages generate code that follow certain -conventions. These conventions are necessary, in part, for separate -compilation to work. One such convention is the "calling -convention". The "calling convention" is essentially a set of -assumptions made by the compiler about where function arguments will -be found on entry to a function. A "calling convention" also specifies -where the return value for a function is found. - -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. - -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. - -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. - - -Supported Platforms -=================== - -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_3.0.11 - -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 | FreeMiNT | -| M68K | RTEMS | -| MIPS | IRIX | -| MIPS | Linux | -| MIPS | RTEMS | -| MIPS64 | Linux | -| PowerPC | AMIGA | -| 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 | Linux/x32 | -| X86-64 | OpenBSD | -| X86-64 | Windows/MingW | -|--------------+------------------| - -Please send additional platform test results to -libffi-discuss@sourceware.org and feel free to update the wiki page -above. - -Installing libffi -================= - -First you must configure the distribution for your particular -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. - -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. - -If you want to enable extra run-time debugging checks use the the ---enable-debug configure switch. This is useful when your program dies -mysteriously while using libffi. - -Another useful configure switch is --enable-purify-safety. Using this -will add some extra code which will suppress certain warnings when you -are using Purify with libffi. Only use this switch when using -Purify, as it will slow down the library. - -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\" - -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.) - -For iOS builds, refer to the build-ios.sh script for guidance. - -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. - -To ensure that libffi is working as advertised, type "make check". -This will require that you have DejaGNU installed. - -To install the library and header files, type "make install". - - -History -======= - -See the ChangeLog files for details. - -3.0.11 MMM-DD-YY - Lots of build fixes. - Add Amiga newer MacOS support. - 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. - Fix Octeon and MC68881 support. - Add m68k FreeMiNT support. - Fix code pessimizations. - Lots of build fixes. - -3.0.10 Aug-23-11 - Add support for Apple's iOS. - Add support for ARM VFP ABI. - Add RTEMS support for MIPS and M68K. - Fix instruction cache clearing problems on - ARM and SPARC. - Fix the N64 build on mips-sgi-irix6.5. - Enable builds with Microsoft's compiler. - Enable x86 builds with Oracle's Solaris compiler. - Fix support for calling code compiled with Oracle's Sparc - Solaris compiler. - Testsuite fixes for Tru64 Unix. - Additional platform support. - -3.0.9 Dec-31-09 - Add AVR32 and win64 ports. Add ARM softfp support. - Many fixes for AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, *BSD. - Several PowerPC and x86-64 bug fixes. - Build DLL for windows. - -3.0.8 Dec-19-08 - Add *BSD, BeOS, and PA-Linux support. - -3.0.7 Nov-11-08 - Fix for ppc FreeBSD. - (thanks to Andreas Tobler) - -3.0.6 Jul-17-08 - Fix for closures on sh. - Mark the sh/sh64 stack as non-executable. - (both thanks to Kaz Kojima) - -3.0.5 Apr-3-08 - Fix libffi.pc file. - Fix #define ARM for IcedTea users. - Fix x86 closure bug. - -3.0.4 Feb-24-08 - Fix x86 OpenBSD configury. - -3.0.3 Feb-22-08 - Enable x86 OpenBSD thanks to Thomas Heller, and - x86-64 FreeBSD thanks to Björn König and Andreas Tobler. - Clean up test instruction in README. - -3.0.2 Feb-21-08 - Improved x86 FreeBSD support. - Thanks to Björn König. - -3.0.1 Feb-15-08 - Fix instruction cache flushing bug on MIPS. - Thanks to David Daney. - -3.0.0 Feb-15-08 - Many changes, mostly thanks to the GCC project. - Cygnus Solutions is now Red Hat. - - [10 years go by...] - -1.20 Oct-5-98 - Raffaele Sena produces ARM port. - -1.19 Oct-5-98 - Fixed x86 long double and long long return support. - m68k bug fixes from Andreas Schwab. - Patch for DU assembler compatibility for the Alpha from Richard - Henderson. - -1.18 Apr-17-98 - Bug fixes and MIPS configuration changes. - -1.17 Feb-24-98 - Bug fixes and m68k port from Andreas Schwab. PowerPC port from - Geoffrey Keating. Various bug x86, Sparc and MIPS bug fixes. - -1.16 Feb-11-98 - Richard Henderson produces Alpha port. - -1.15 Dec-4-97 - Fixed an n32 ABI bug. New libtool, auto* support. - -1.14 May-13-97 - libtool is now used to generate shared and static libraries. - Fixed a minor portability problem reported by Russ McManus - <mcmanr@eq.gs.com>. - -1.13 Dec-2-96 - Added --enable-purify-safety to keep Purify from complaining - about certain low level code. - Sparc fix for calling functions with < 6 args. - Linux x86 a.out fix. - -1.12 Nov-22-96 - Added missing ffi_type_void, needed for supporting void return - types. Fixed test case for non MIPS machines. Cygnus Support - is now Cygnus Solutions. - -1.11 Oct-30-96 - Added notes about GNU make. - -1.10 Oct-29-96 - Added configuration fix for non GNU compilers. - -1.09 Oct-29-96 - Added --enable-debug configure switch. Clean-ups based on LCLint - feedback. ffi_mips.h is always installed. Many configuration - fixes. Fixed ffitest.c for sparc builds. - -1.08 Oct-15-96 - Fixed n32 problem. Many clean-ups. - -1.07 Oct-14-96 - Gordon Irlam rewrites v8.S again. Bug fixes. - -1.06 Oct-14-96 - Gordon Irlam improved the sparc port. - -1.05 Oct-14-96 - Interface changes based on feedback. - -1.04 Oct-11-96 - Sparc port complete (modulo struct passing bug). - -1.03 Oct-10-96 - Passing struct args, and returning struct values works for - all architectures/calling conventions. Expanded tests. - -1.02 Oct-9-96 - Added SGI n32 support. Fixed bugs in both o32 and Linux support. - Added "make test". - -1.01 Oct-8-96 - Fixed float passing bug in mips version. Restructured some - of the code. Builds cleanly with SGI tools. - -1.00 Oct-7-96 - First release. No public announcement. - - -Authors & Credits -================= - -libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>. - -The developers of the GNU Compiler Collection project have made -innumerable valuable contributions. See the ChangeLog file for -details. - -Some of the ideas behind libffi were inspired by Gianni Mariani's free -gencall library for Silicon Graphics machines. - -The closure mechanism was designed and implemented by Kresten Krab -Thorup. - -Major processor architecture ports were contributed by the following -developers: - -alpha Richard Henderson -arm Raffaele Sena -cris Simon Posnjak, Hans-Peter Nilsson -frv Anthony Green -ia64 Hans Boehm -m32r Kazuhiro Inaoka -m68k Andreas Schwab -mips Anthony Green, Casey Marshall -mips64 David Daney -pa Randolph Chung, Dave Anglin, Andreas Tobler -powerpc Geoffrey Keating, Andreas Tobler, - David Edelsohn, John Hornkvist -powerpc64 Jakub Jelinek -s390 Gerhard Tonn, Ulrich Weigand -sh Kaz Kojima -sh64 Kaz Kojima -sparc Anthony Green, Gordon Irlam -x86 Anthony Green, Jon Beniston -x86-64 Bo Thorsen - -Jesper Skov and Andrew Haley both did more than their fair share of -stepping through the code and tracking down bugs. - -Thanks also to Tom Tromey for bug fixes, documentation and -configuration help. - -Thanks to Jim Blandy, who provided some useful feedback on the libffi -interface. - -Andreas Tobler has done a tremendous amount of work on the testsuite. - -Alex Oliva solved the executable page problem for SElinux. - -The list above is almost certainly incomplete and inaccurate. I'm -happy to make corrections or additions upon request. - -If you have a problem, or have found a bug, please send a note to the -author at green@moxielogic.com, or the project mailing list at -libffi-discuss@sourceware.org. |