"The plan for gccrs" ( 2024 )

Saturday at 11:40, 40 minutes, H.1308 (Rolin), H.1308 (Rolin), Rust devroom Arthur Cohen , video

gccrs is an alternative implementation of a Rust compiler currently being developed. It aims to become a fully fledged Rust compiler, and hopes to share as much code as possible with the official Rust compiler in order to guarantee correctness and avoid damage on the Rust ecosystem. But how do we plan to integrate Rust components to the GCC codebase, and what sort of components will we reuse? This talk will explore the future of the project, as well as some of the challenges surrounding compilers, and the very silly sounding but real problems of bootstrapping and dogfooding. We will explore the stack of rustc crates that we leverage, how we use them together, and how they will play a part once the compiler has advanced further.