GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by comex on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:13AM (#21734885)

Eh, it’s not as one-sided as that. GCC has a larger number of targets, but LLVM supports several newer targets that GCC doesn’t, like WebAssembly and eBPF (although the latter is coming in GCC 10). But it would certainly be nice for Rust to support both sets of targets.

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by cbmuser on Sunday December 08, 2019 @05:51AM (#21735303)

Compare the number of architectures by GCC:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Archit...

And the number of architectures by LLVM:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#Back_ends

GCC supports vastly more targets.

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by est31 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @08:11AM (#21735718)

That's the current state but LLVM is adding new targets (like the newly added AVR target), while the AVR target in GCC is under threat of removal: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/84630749-avr-convert-the...

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by vunie on Sunday December 08, 2019 @10:00AM (#21736163)

GCC still supports more architectures even if AVR support is removed.

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by comex on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:00PM (#21740308)

What part of my comment does that contradict?

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