Is there anything else we should say?
I thought about recommending that distributions not install the libffi shared
library from gcc and instead use upstream source. But that doesn't really help
one way or the other, so I dropped that language.
r~
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have been removed. The AArch64 backend now uses the local register
allocator (LRA) only.
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+ <li>The shared library generated for libffi has an accidental ABI
+ change in the size and layout of <code>ffi_closure</code>,
+ <code>ffi_raw_closure</code>, and <code>ffi_java_raw_closure</code>.
+ It is now too late to correct this for GCC 5.
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<h3 id="arm">ARM</h3>
