This is a full alternative implementation of the Rust language on top of GCC with the goal to become fully upstream with the GNU toolchain.
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The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
In order to speed up development, as well as make sure gccrs exposes the exact same behavior as rustc in critical compiler passes, we decided last year to start reusing components and crates from the official Rust compiler where possible. These components range from external crates used for certain nightly options to…