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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by gumby on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:09PM (#25716760)
It's not written in rust; gcc is written in c. There is no bootstrapping involved.
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by NieDzejkob on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:35PM (#25717063)
GCC is no longer written in C, but in C++. They switched after GCC 4.7.
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by saagarjha on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:33PM (#25720877)
Of course, much of the code is still C.
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by faitswulff on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:22PM (#25716916)
Do gcc languages - even low level ones - remain written in c?
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by guerby on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#25717133)
The GCC Ada frontend is written in Ada:

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GNAT

There is also a port of the Ada frontend to LLVM backend:

https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by pjmlp on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:07PM (#25718310)
Besides the Ada example, GDC shares the D frontend, written in D, with other D implementations.
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by Narishma on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:34PM (#25717060)
C++ but yes.
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