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Re:Is it time to rewrite the operating system in Rust? [slides] by throwaway_se099 on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:50AM (#18407067)
> C++ at least has extern "C" going for it, which disables name mangling. Rust doesn't have that

It does, it's called "#[no_mangle]", and together with an extern "C" fn declaration you get a non-mangled function directly callable from C.

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Re:Is it time to rewrite the operating system in Rust? [slides] by gammagoblin on Thursday November 08, 2018 @02:10PM (#18408969)
I see, I admittedly didn't know that. Thanks.
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