The transpiled code will use pointers, it will not transform C-isms that could map to Rust-isms (like borrowing instead of pointers, or iterators instead of pointer arithmetic). This is meant to be only the first step in a Rust refactor.

https://galois.com/blog/2018/08/c2rust/

https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/wiki/Known-Limitations-of...