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-Status
-======
-
-libffi-3.4.4 was released on October 23, 2022.  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.
-
-At the time of release, the following basic configurations have been
-tested:
-
-| Architecture    | Operating System | Compiler                |
-| --------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- |
-| AArch64 (ARM64) | iOS              | Clang                   |
-| AArch64         | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| AArch64         | Windows          | MSVC                    |
-| Alpha           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| Alpha           | Tru64            | GCC                     |
-| ARC             | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| ARC32           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| ARC64           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| ARM             | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| ARM             | iOS              | GCC                     |
-| ARM             | Windows          | MSVC                    |
-| AVR32           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| Blackfin        | uClinux          | GCC                     |
-| CSKY            | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| HPPA            | HPUX             | GCC                     |
-| HPPA64          | HPUX             | GCC                     |
-| KVX             | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| IA-64           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| LoongArch64     | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| M68K            | FreeMiNT         | GCC                     |
-| M68K            | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| M68K            | RTEMS            | GCC                     |
-| M88K            | OpenBSD/mvme88k  | GCC                     |
-| Meta            | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| MicroBlaze      | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| MIPS            | IRIX             | GCC                     |
-| MIPS            | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| MIPS            | RTEMS            | GCC                     |
-| MIPS64          | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| Moxie           | Bare metal       | GCC                     |
-| Nios II         | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| OpenRISC        | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC 32-bit  | AIX              | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC 32-bit  | AIX              | IBM XL C                |
-| PowerPC 64-bit  | AIX              | IBM XL C                |
-| PowerPC         | AMIGA            | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC         | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC         | Mac OSX          | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC         | FreeBSD          | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC 64-bit  | FreeBSD          | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC 64-bit  | Linux ELFv1      | GCC                     |
-| PowerPC 64-bit  | Linux ELFv2      | GCC                     |
-| RISC-V 32-bit   | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| RISC-V 64-bit   | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| S390            | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| S390X           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| SPARC           | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| SPARC           | Solaris          | GCC                     |
-| SPARC           | Solaris          | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
-| SPARC64         | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| SPARC64         | FreeBSD          | GCC                     |
-| SPARC64         | Solaris          | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
-| TILE-Gx/TILEPro | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| VAX             | OpenBSD/vax      | GCC                     |
-| WASM32          | Emscripten       | EMCC                    |
-| X86             | FreeBSD          | GCC                     |
-| X86             | GNU HURD         | GCC                     |
-| X86             | Interix          | GCC                     |
-| X86             | kFreeBSD         | GCC                     |
-| X86             | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| X86             | OpenBSD          | GCC                     |
-| X86             | OS/2             | GCC                     |
-| X86             | Solaris          | GCC                     |
-| X86             | Solaris          | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
-| X86             | Windows/Cygwin   | GCC                     |
-| X86             | Windows/MinGW    | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | FreeBSD          | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | Linux            | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | Linux/x32        | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | OpenBSD          | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | Solaris          | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
-| X86-64          | Windows/Cygwin   | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | Windows/MinGW    | GCC                     |
-| X86-64          | Mac OSX          | GCC                     |
-| Xtensa          | Linux            | GCC                     |
-
-Please send additional platform test results to
-libffi-discuss@sourceware.org.
-
-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.  Note that building libffi requires a C99 compatible
-compiler.
-
-If you're building libffi directly from git hosted sources, configure
-won't exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first.  This will require that you
-install autoconf, automake and libtool.
-
-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.
-
-If you don't want to build documentation, use the ``--disable-docs``
-configure switch.
-
-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 CXX=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP="cl -nologo -EP" CPPFLAGS="-DFFI_BUILDING_DLL"
-
-For 64-bit Windows builds, use ``CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64"`` and
-``CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64"``.  You may also need to specify
-``--build`` appropriately.
-
-It is also possible to build libffi on Windows platforms with the LLVM
-project's clang-cl compiler, like below:
-
-    path/to/configure CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -clang-cl" CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -clang-cl" LD=link CPP="clang-cl -EP"
-
-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.)
-
-To build static library for ARM64 with MSVC using visual studio solution, msvc_build folder have
-   aarch64/Ffi_staticLib.sln
-   required header files in aarch64/aarch64_include/
-
-
-SPARC Solaris builds require the use of the GNU assembler and linker.
-Point ``AS`` and ``LD`` environment variables at those tool prior to
-configuration.
-
-For iOS builds, the ``libffi.xcodeproj`` Xcode project is available.
-
-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 ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/make .
-
-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 git log for details at http://github.com/libffi/libffi.
-
-    TBD - TBD
-        Add support for wasm32.
-        Add support for HPPA64, and many HPPA fixes.
-        Add support for ARCv3: ARC32 & ARC64.
-        Many x86 Darwin fixes.
-
-    3.4.4 Oct-23-2022
-        Important aarch64 fixes, including support for linux builds
-          with Link Time Optimization (-flto).
-        Fix x86 stdcall stack alignment.
-        Fix x86 Windows msvc assembler compatibility.
-        Fix moxie and or1k small structure args.
-
-    3.4.3 Sep-19-2022
-        All struct args are passed by value, regardless of size, as per ABIs.
-        Enable static trampolines for Cygwin.
-        Add support for Loongson's LoongArch64 architecture.
-        Fix x32 static trampolines.
-        Fix 32-bit x86 stdcall stack corruption.
-        Fix ILP32 aarch64 support.
-
-    3.4.2 Jun-28-2021
-        Add static trampoline support for Linux on x86_64 and ARM64.
-        Add support for Alibaba's CSKY architecture.
-        Add support for Kalray's KVX architecture.
-        Add support for Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).
-        Add support for ARM Pointer Authentication (PA).
-        Fix 32-bit PPC regression.
-        Fix MIPS soft-float problem.
-        Enable tmpdir override with the $LIBFFI_TMPDIR environment variable.
-        Enable compatibility with MSVC runtime stack checking.
-        Reject float and small integer argument in ffi_prep_cif_var().
-          Callers must promote these types themselves.
-
-    3.3 Nov-23-2019
-        Add RISC-V support.
-        New API in support of GO closures.
-        Add IEEE754 binary128 long double support for 64-bit Power
-        Default to Microsoft's 64 bit long double ABI with Visual C++.
-        GNU compiler uses 80 bits (128 in memory) FFI_GNUW64 ABI.
-        Add Windows on ARM64 (WOA) support.
-        Add Windows 32-bit ARM support.
-        Raw java (gcj) API deprecated.
-        Add pre-built PDF documentation to source distribution.
-        Many new test cases and bug fixes.
-
-    3.2.1 Nov-12-2014
-        Build fix for non-iOS AArch64 targets.
-
-    3.2 Nov-11-2014
-        Add C99 Complex Type support (currently only supported on
-          s390).
-        Add support for PASCAL and REGISTER calling conventions on x86
-          Windows/Linux.
-        Add OpenRISC and Cygwin-64 support.
-        Bug fixes.
-
-    3.1 May-19-2014
-        Add AArch64 (ARM64) iOS support.
-        Add Nios II support.
-        Add m88k and DEC VAX support.
-        Add support for stdcall, thiscall, and fastcall on non-Windows
-          32-bit x86 targets such as Linux.
-        Various Android, MIPS N32, x86, FreeBSD and UltraSPARC IIi
-          fixes.
-        Make the testsuite more robust: eliminate several spurious
-          failures, and respect the $CC and $CXX environment variables.
-        Archive off the manually maintained ChangeLog in favor of git
-          log.
-
-    3.0.13 Mar-17-2013
-        Add Meta support.
-        Add missing Moxie bits.
-        Fix stack alignment bug on 32-bit x86.
-        Build fix for m68000 targets.
-        Build fix for soft-float Power targets.
-        Fix the install dir location for some platforms when building
-          with GCC (OS X, Solaris).
-        Fix Cygwin regression.
-
-    3.0.12 Feb-11-2013
-        Add Moxie support.
-        Add AArch64 support.
-        Add Blackfin support.
-        Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support.
-        Add MicroBlaze support.
-        Add Xtensa support.
-        Add support for PaX enabled kernels with MPROTECT.
-        Add support for native vendor compilers on
-          Solaris and AIX.
-        Work around LLVM/GCC interoperability issue on x86_64.
-
-    3.0.11 Apr-11-2012
-        Lots of build fixes.
-        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.
-        Add m68k FreeMiNT support.
-        Integration with iOS' xcode build tools.
-        Fix Octeon and MC68881 support.
-        Fix code pessimizations.
-
-    3.0.10 Aug-23-2011
-        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-31-2009
-        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-19-2008
-        Add *BSD, BeOS, and PA-Linux support.
-
-    3.0.7 Nov-11-2008
-        Fix for ppc FreeBSD.
-        (thanks to Andreas Tobler)
-
-    3.0.6 Jul-17-2008
-        Fix for closures on sh.
-        Mark the sh/sh64 stack as non-executable.
-        (both thanks to Kaz Kojima)
-
-    3.0.5 Apr-3-2008
-        Fix libffi.pc file.
-        Fix #define ARM for IcedTea users.
-        Fix x86 closure bug.
-
-    3.0.4 Feb-24-2008
-        Fix x86 OpenBSD configury.
-
-    3.0.3 Feb-22-2008
-        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-21-2008
-        Improved x86 FreeBSD support.
-        Thanks to Björn König.
-
-    3.0.1 Feb-15-2008
-        Fix instruction cache flushing bug on MIPS.
-        Thanks to David Daney.
-
-    3.0.0 Feb-15-2008
-        Many changes, mostly thanks to the GCC project.
-        Cygnus Solutions is now Red Hat.
-
-      [10 years go by...]
-
-    1.20 Oct-5-1998
-        Raffaele Sena produces ARM port.
-
-    1.19 Oct-5-1998
-        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-17-1998
-        Bug fixes and MIPS configuration changes.
-
-    1.17 Feb-24-1998
-        Bug fixes and m68k port from Andreas Schwab. PowerPC port from
-        Geoffrey Keating. Various bug x86, Sparc and MIPS bug fixes.
-
-    1.16 Feb-11-1998
-        Richard Henderson produces Alpha port.
-
-    1.15 Dec-4-1997
-        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-2-1996
-        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-22-1996
-        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-30-1996
-        Added notes about GNU make.
-
-    1.10 Oct-29-1996
-        Added configuration fix for non GNU compilers.
-
-    1.09 Oct-29-1996
-        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-15-1996
-        Fixed n32 problem. Many clean-ups.
-
-    1.07 Oct-14-1996
-        Gordon Irlam rewrites v8.S again. Bug fixes.
-
-    1.06 Oct-14-1996
-        Gordon Irlam improved the sparc port.
-
-    1.05 Oct-14-1996
-        Interface changes based on feedback.
-
-    1.04 Oct-11-1996
-        Sparc port complete (modulo struct passing bug).
-
-    1.03 Oct-10-1996
-        Passing struct args, and returning struct values works for
-        all architectures/calling conventions. Expanded tests.
-
-    1.02 Oct-9-1996
-        Added SGI n32 support. Fixed bugs in both o32 and Linux support.
-        Added "make test".
-
-    1.01 Oct-8-1996
-        Fixed float passing bug in mips version. Restructured some
-        of the code. Builds cleanly with SGI tools.
-
-    1.00 Oct-7-1996
-        First release. No public announcement.
-
-Authors & Credits
-=================
-
-libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.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:
-
-    aarch64             Marcus Shawcroft, James Greenhalgh
-    alpha               Richard Henderson
-    arc                 Hackers at Synopsis
-    arm                 Raffaele Sena
-    avr32               Bradley Smith
-    blackfin            Alexandre Keunecke I. de Mendonca
-    cris                Simon Posnjak, Hans-Peter Nilsson
-    csky                Ma Jun, Zhang Wenmeng
-    frv                 Anthony Green
-    ia64                Hans Boehm
-    kvx                 Yann Sionneau
-    loongarch64         Cheng Lulu, Xi Ruoyao, Xu Hao,
-                        Zhang Wenlong, Pan Xuefeng
-    m32r                Kazuhiro Inaoka
-    m68k                Andreas Schwab
-    m88k                Miod Vallat
-    metag               Hackers at Imagination Technologies
-    microblaze          Nathan Rossi
-    mips                Anthony Green, Casey Marshall
-    mips64              David Daney
-    moxie               Anthony Green
-    nios ii             Sandra Loosemore
-    openrisc            Sebastian Macke
-    pa                  Randolph Chung, Dave Anglin, Andreas Tobler
-    pa64                Dave Anglin
-    powerpc             Geoffrey Keating, Andreas Tobler,
-                        David Edelsohn, John Hornkvist
-    powerpc64           Jakub Jelinek
-    riscv               Michael Knyszek, Andrew Waterman, Stef O'Rear
-    s390                Gerhard Tonn, Ulrich Weigand
-    sh                  Kaz Kojima
-    sh64                Kaz Kojima
-    sparc               Anthony Green, Gordon Irlam
-    tile-gx/tilepro     Walter Lee
-    vax                 Miod Vallat
-    wasm32              Hood Chatham, Brion Vibber, Kleis Auke Wolthuizen
-    x86                 Anthony Green, Jon Beniston
-    x86-64              Bo Thorsen
-    xtensa              Chris Zankel
-
-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 file an issue on
-our issue tracker at https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues.
-
-The author can be reached at green@moxielogic.com.
-
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