[Python-Dev] ctypes module

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

for the record libffi supports itanium officially (but as usual I'm
very skeptical how well it works on less used platforms)
https://sourceware.org/libffi/

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 April 2015 at 20:36, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I presume the reason was that noone wants to maintain code for the
>> case where there are no buildbots available and there is no
>> development time available. You are free to put back in the files and
>> see if they work (they might not), but such things are usually removed
>> if they're a maintenance burden. I would be happy to assist you with
>> finding someone willing to do commercial maintenance of ctypes for
>> itanium, but asking python devs to do it for free is a bit too much.
>
> As a point of reference, even Red Hat dropped Itanium support for
> RHEL6+ - you have to go all the way back to RHEL5 to find a version we
> still support running on Itanium.
>
> For most of CPython, keeping it running on arbitrary architectures
> often isn't too difficult, as libc abstracts away a lot of the
> hardware details. libffi (and hence ctypes) are notable exceptions to
> that :)
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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