Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust

Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by steveklabnik on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @01:58PM (#11490562)

As a side note, Windows XP support in Rust is partial. We don't support running the compiler on XP, but do support compiling _to_ it, but some parts of the standard library may not work. It's missing some primitives, basically.

Not that that matters in the context of writing a kernel driver, mind you...

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by pravic on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:30PM (#11492377)

Yep, most of modern atomic primitives at WinAPI available since Vista (like SRWLock, Condition variables).

But core of NT is stable since 3.1 (1993) and even there are structures which are dated 1989 (e.g. [FILE_OBJECT](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...).

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