Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction

Re:Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction by nickpsecurity on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:42PM (#12263922)

I mean, I'm guessing here, but wouldn't simplest way be starting mid-way in the existing Rust compiler to port an intermediate language to GCC? Straight-up compile it to GCC C or whatever GCC does internally. That way, you get the parsing, analysis, etc for free plus any improvements they make. Lots of other languages used this approach.

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Re:Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction by dikaiosune on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @04:33PM (#12264573)

I'm pretty sure mrustc isn't targeting GCC as a backend, but I'm not sure.

I don't know what approach is being taken by the person working on a GCC backend, but it's entirely possible what you've described is what they're doing.

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Re:Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction by harrytodorov on Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:46AM (#12267405)

> I'm pretty sure mrustc isn't targeting GCC as a backend, but I'm not sure.

I'm pretty sure your statement is somewhat paradoxical :)

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