Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress This week I made good progress in adding Type Coercion code for the first coercion site of assignment expressions, this allows us to implement RawPointers and unsafe. The other major piece of work has been TypeCasts which […]
GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 19
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress This week I spent the week cleaning up code, as I was working on my branch for traits I found the HIR implementation was missing a lot of desugaring. This is an important part of the HIR […]
GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 8 – Return of the Generics
Google Summer of Code 2021 With the recent announcement of Google Summer of Code 2021 GCC Rust has received a lot of interest from many different students. All of whom are getting up and running with the compiler and trying to figure out what their project proposal will be. This year google summer of code […]
GCC Rust Update #1
I’ve been a fan of Rust as a modern system level programming language since around 2014. C/C++ is ubiquitous in this arena for good reason but are fairly old comparatively to the landscape now. You may or may not be aware I started a GCC front-end for Rust back in 2014/2015, I was able to […]