Initial import of libffi-2.0beta into the NetBSD Packages Collection.

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.

Some programs may not know at the time of compilation what arguments
are to be passed to a function.  For instance, an interpreter may be
told at run-time about the number and types of arguments used to call
a given function.  Libffi can be used in such programs to provide a
bridge from the interpreter program to compiled code.

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.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES
index 3295d92331f..8b15985be8b 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES
+++ b/doc/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: CHANGES,v 1.2821 2003/07/18 12:22:55 jmmv Exp $
+$NetBSD: CHANGES,v 1.2822 2003/07/18 12:41:16 agc Exp $
 
 Changes to the packages collection and infrastructure in 2003:
 
@@ -2854,3 +2854,4 @@ Changes to the packages collection and infrastructure in 2003:
 	Updated eawpatches to 12 [adam 2003-07-18]
 	Updated lesstif to 0.93.46 [adam 2003-07-18]
 	Updated pkg_comp to 1.7 [jmmv 2003-07-18]
+	Added libffi-2.0beta [agc 2003-07-18]