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 in 2021
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Overview GCC Rust is a project dating back to 2014, when Rust was still in flux. It became tough to keep up with everything, so the project stalled out. It wasn’t until early 2019 I joined forces with Joel, […]
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 34
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress As the previous traits milestone ran over by three weeks, I aim to close out this control flow milestone by the end of this week (3rd December); this means we will get back two of those weeks […]
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 Monthly Report #11 October 2021
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress October, we moved onto control flow two, which was a milestone to focus on adding support for the match statement, enums, attempt closures, and fixing known bugs. Finally, we can attempt to test the compiler out on […]
GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 31
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project. Milestone Progress Last week’s report discussed how I had been blocked on my work into closures as we are missing support for Rust’s lang-item system, which we knew we needed for the goal test case. This week, I have […]
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 […]