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Re:Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk by amaranth on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:01AM (#33983540)
This is eventually going to be a feature-complete compiler, targeting a specific rustc version. I believe the plan is to use polonius [1], presumably as an "optional" feature so they can build a stage 1 without it, use that to build polonius, then build the final compiler with it included.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius

Re:Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk by wofo on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:49AM (#33984171)
You are right, this much more ambitious than I though! Here is more information about the project, for the curious: https://rust-gcc.github.io/