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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:31AM (#24339086)
No they do not.

GNU Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, BASIC and plenty of OEM derived ones were never part of GCC source tree.

I had to study GIMPLE and GCC integration as part of my compiler design studies back in the 90's, using those nice Walnut Creek CD-ROMs.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by JoshTriplett on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:09AM (#24339257)
Sure, you could also fork all of GCC as part of your frontend. That's still a massive undertaking compared to a framework that's designed to be used as a library.
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