GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by sfink on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:51AM (#21741039)

My impression is that gcc produces smaller code that is roughly comparable with clang in terms of runtime performance (with a slight advantage when compiling the codebase I care about the most). Gcc has better debug info, especially when optimizing. I don't know about compile speeds. Clang has better infrastructure for writing static analysis tools. Clang is a much more realistic alternative to msvc on windows than gcc is. I don't know about their development velocities. Clang seems to have the edge in mindshare.

I'd be curious to know whether this would provide cross-language outlining during LTO using gcc. I believe some form of this is possible with llvm?

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by Reelin on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:40AM (#21741210)

My understanding is that LTO (and thus any cross-language inlining) takes place using a low level IR where language barriers aren't relevant. The GCC and LLVM backends both have full support as far as I know. Hypothetically it's simple to implement support in a given frontend, but apparently it proved to be a bit tricky in practice for Rust (http://blog.llvm.org/2019/09/closing-gap-cross-language-lto-...).

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