GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 36

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress Before starting any development on macros, I have been working through the branches of code I have sitting around before they go stale. So I merged the constexpr work, which begins the port of the C++ frontend’s […]

GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 35

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress It’s 2022, and it is back to business for GCC Rust. We are now focusing on macros and config expansions, the last prominent missing feature preventing us from attempting to compile libcore. Macro expansion in Rust is […]

GCC Rust Monthly Report #12 November 2021

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress November was a busy month where we added lang item’s and operator overloading, particularly dereference operator overloading, which is critical in terms of a control flow for method resolution. The remaining tasks are merging enum code generation […]

GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 33

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress Another week of steady progress, where we landed the initial support for operator overloading, was all due to merging the lang-items work, which has unblocked a bunch of stuff within the compiler. The other major work was […]

GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 32

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress This report covers work completed since the 1st of November as I took the last week of the 8th off to use some vacation time. During that week, I cracked the problem of handling/managing rust’s lang-item system […]

GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 30

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress Since Wednesday last week, I have been back from vacation, but we have still made significant progress in the current milestone thanks to the community working so hard. The pattern matching milestone includes cleaning up our code […]

GCC Rust Monthly Report #10 September 2021

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress September was another great month for GCC Rust. We finished the trait resolution milestone and have now moved onto control flow two, which focuses on pattern matching semantics; this milestone should also serve to clean up some […]

GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 29

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress This week my focus was on the linux plumbers conference so I was not able to complete any tickets for the current milestone, though I have made some good progress in investigating closures in C++ and GO […]