Cohen: gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust

Date:
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:04:37 +0000

Description:
Arthur Cohen has posted a
detailed introduction to the gccrs project on the Rust Blog, seemingly
with the goal of convincing the Rust community about the value of the
project. Likewise, many GCC plugins are used for increasing the safety of
critical projects such as the Linux kernel, which has recently
gained support for the Rust programming language. This makes gccrs a useful tool for analyzing unsafe Rust code, and
more generally Rust code which has to interact with existing C
code. We also want gccrs to be a useful tool for rustc itself by helping pan out the Rust specification
effort with a unique viewpoint - that of a tool trying to replicate
another's functionality, oftentimes through careful experimentation
and source reading where the existing documentation did not go into
enough detail. (LWN last looked at gccrs in October).

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/997483/


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