[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, at 14:13, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> After reading this http://bugs.python.org/issue23085 and remembering
> struggling having our own patches into cpython's libffi (but not into
> libffi itself), I wonder, is there any reason any more for libffi
> being included in CPython?

It has some sort of Windows related patches. No one seems to know
whether they're still needed for newer libffi. Unfortunately, ctypes
doesn't currently have a maintainer.