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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by sophacles on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:51AM (#46220060)
Perhaps we can finally stop defining abis in terms of c structs!
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by qwm on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:35AM (#46232664)
If only Rust had a spec to do that with
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by sophacles on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:45PM (#46234558)
I don't think they should be defined in terms of any programming language. They should be defined in terms of the architecture - bits, bytes, words and instructions, along with semantics of use. Like we do with networking protocols and file formats.
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by steveklabnik on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:00PM (#46234722)
It's being worked on! https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3470
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