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A comment on GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021. Parent comment

Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by bestouff on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:37AM (#28365299)
Rustc is based on LLVM. A GCC backend would target more architectures and be somewhat more optimized. Plus, a different implementation of a compiler frontend is, for some, a good thing to have for a language.
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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by volta83 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:14AM (#28366370)
rustc is backend agnostic, and currently has: an LLVM backend, a Cretonne backend, and a GCC backend.

So rustc can already target _more_ architectures than this new GCC frontend, because it supports LLVM and Cretonne.

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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by bestouff on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:59AM (#28377113)
For now the only production-ready backend is the historical LLVM backends.
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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by PoignardAzur on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:38PM (#28370224)
> a Cretonne backend

I think you mean Cranelift?

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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by volta83 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:58PM (#28370530)
Oops, yes, Cretonne was renamed to Cranelift a while ago. For some reason I still call it Cretonne.
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