Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress Traits have progressed well since the last report; associated types took some experimentation to implement the Placeholder Type correctly such that we resolve the relative type correctly. Now that we have a solid base of associated types […]
GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 24
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress We are getting closer to the end of this milestone and last week saw my long living branch finally getting merged. This branch has added the relevant code to support type bounds, which is the last building […]
GCC Rust Monthly Report #8 July 2021
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress The month of July saw good progress getting through some of the bigger tickets. I was hoping to get my TypeBounds branch merged, which will allow us to make more useful generic code such as: I had […]
GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 23
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 […]