# ChangeLog for dev-libs/libffi # Copyright 2002-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libffi/ChangeLog,v 1.5 2003/07/12 09:22:22 aliz Exp $ *libffi-1.20 (13 Feb 2003) 12 Jul 2003; Daniel Ahlberg : Added missing changelog entry. 06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees : changed sparc ~sparc keywords *libffi-0.20 ( 10 Feb 2002 ) 10 Feb 2002; Karl Trygve Kalleberg ChangeLog files/digest-libffi-0.20 libffi-0.20: The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run-time. Ffi stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one language to call code written in another language. The libffi library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. A layer must exist above libffi that handles type conversions for values passed between the two languages.