GCC Rust – Weekly Status Report – Jan 11th

This week was the announcement of the funding for GCC Rust.

1. GCC Rust – How it can be achieved: https://www.embecosm.com/2021/01/12/gcc-rust-how-it-can-be-achieved/
2. Open Source Security, Inc. Announces Funding of GCC Front-End for Rust: https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding

Dev wise this week was about completing building blocks for Tuples support.

Completed Activities

• Implicit returns should enforce typing on stmts before final expression – PR-148
• Unit Type support – PR-149
• Forward decls compilation support – PR-150
• Fix naming of VarDecls in gimple nodes – PR-151
• Struct Field Expression support – PR-152
• Tuples support – PR-153
• Expressions within parentheses – PR-154
• Fix Link to Build Shield – PR-147
• Fix Link Error – PR-137

Overall Task Status

Category	Last Week	This Week	Delta
ToDo	32	36	+4
In Progress	6	5	-1
Completed	33	35	+2

Test Cases

Test Cases	Last Week	This Week	Delta
Passing	220	300	+80
Failed	0	0	0

Milestones Progress

Milestone	Last Week	This Week	Delta
Data Structures 1	79%	87%	+8%
Control Flow 1	14%	25%	+11%
Data Structures 2	0%	0%	–
Data Structures 3	0%	0%	–
Control Flow 2	0%	0%	–
Imports	0%	0%	–

Risks

Risk	Impact (1-3)	Likelihood (0-10)	Risk (I * L)	Mitigation
Copyright assignments	2	5	10	Be up front on all PRs that the code is destined to be up streamed to FSF

Planned Activities

• Tuple Structs
• Unit Structs
• Mutability
• Documentation on name resolver
• Plan more issues in future milestones