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Re:mrustc: In-progress alternative Rust compiler (to C) by skybrian on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:06PM (#26297055)
But there are no binaries being copied. They allow hand-written C to be copied, but not machine-generated C?
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Re:mrustc: In-progress alternative Rust compiler (to C) by monocasa on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:13PM (#26297114)
Without mrustc you'd need to trust the rustc binary, or build around a hundred versions of rust to go back to a rustc that itself didn't depend on rust.
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