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An Update on Gccrs Development
update on gccrs development The GCC frontend goes by the name "gccrs"; the trademark rules around the language prevent it from being called a Rust compiler. Since the project restarted in 2019, Patry began, it has been targeting the 1.49 release of the language, which came out in 2020.
Adding a Rust frontend to GCC would do much to address those concerns; at the 2024 GNU Tools Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry gave an update on the state of that work and what its objectives are. The final GSoC student (Kushal Pal) worked on borrow checking in the GCC intermediate representation and getting proper error messages to users. Looking forward to the upcoming GCC 15 release, Patry said that the primary focus is on implementing features that are needed to compile kernel code with gccrs.
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