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[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Thu Mar 12 19:35:55 CET 2015 
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> For UNIX OSs we could probably rely on the system libffi then. What's the
> situation on OS X? Anyone know if it has libffi, or would be need to be
> pulled in to be used like on Windows?

Ronald (in http://bugs.python.org/issue23534):
"On OSX the internal copy of libffi that's used is based on the one in 
PyObjC, which in turn is based on the version of libffi on 
opensource.apple.com (IIRC with some small patches that fix minor issues 
found by the PyObjC testsuite)."

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