Is there any prospect of compiling Rust to C anytime in the mid to near future?
This would be a really attractive option for anyone who wants to write
in Rust, but wants the extreme portability of C.
Actually maybe I should first ask if this is actually a tractable
problem. Are there technical
The biggest problem would be probably be handling stack unwinding (IIRC the
LLVM C backend never tried to handle this either). The only option when
targeting C is to use setjmp / longjmp, but that is going to be pretty
inefficient. Alternatively you could just abort instead of unwinding.
On Jul 16, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Gábor Lehel glaebho...@gmail.com wrote:
3. As far as I'm aware, subtyping in the current language arises only from
subtyping of lifetimes. Where is this important? One example was mentioned in
[Niko's recent blog
Hi!
I was thinking about fork/join-style parallelism and about whether
this can be made to work including the possibility to pass references
(or something similar to references) across task boundaries. So far, I
came up with a little low-level building block that could be of
interest to the
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Cameron Zwarich zwar...@mozilla.com wrote:
The biggest problem would be probably be handling stack
unwinding (IIRC the LLVM C backend never tried to handle
this either).
Interesting, I can see what that would be a challenge.
The only option when targeting C
On Jul 18, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Josh Haberman jhaber...@gmail.com wrote:
The only option when targeting C is to use
setjmp / longjmp, but that is going to be pretty inefficient.
Why do you think of setjmp/longjmp as inefficient? If you use the
_setjmp/_longjmp variants that don't fiddle with
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Josh Haberman jhaber...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any prospect of compiling Rust to C anytime in the mid to near
future?
This would be a really attractive option for anyone who wants to write
in Rust, but wants the extreme portability of C.
Actually maybe
On 17/lug/2014, at 20:08, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.com wrote:
Thanks for your work on MacPorts. Did you use any flags to configure or
arguments to make? What version of OS X, clang/gcc?
Yes, sorry, I’m building this on OS X 10.9.4 with system clang (5.1). After
further inspection, I
On 07/18/2014 03:43 PM, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote:
On 17/lug/2014, at 20:08, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.com wrote:
Thanks for your work on MacPorts. Did you use any flags to configure or
arguments to make? What version of OS X, clang/gcc?
Yes, sorry, I’m building this on OS X 10.9.4 with
