On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, at 14:50, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:

well, the problem is essentially that libffi gets patched (e.g. for ARM) and it does not make it's way to CPython quickly. This is unlikely to be a security issue (for a variety of reasons, including ctypes), but it's still an issue I think. Segfaults related to e.g. stack alignment are hard to debug

Certainly it's a suboptimal situation, but resolving it requires someone to figure out whether we still need/want whatever patches are in there.