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Re: [Ghm-discuss] GCC frontend for Rust


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: [Ghm-discuss] GCC frontend for Rust
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:59:51 +0200
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Hello!

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> skribis:

> There's two things I knew about this in the past:
> 1. mrustc: A rust to C compiler. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
> The author calls it a compiler, but my understanding is that this is just a
> transpiler.

On that topic, Guix builds Rust entirely from source, using mrustc for
bootstrapping:

  https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/

Having mrustc is what makes it possible to build Rust from source.

A Rust front-end in GCC would be even better!

Ludo’.



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