On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:59:11PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote: > I suspect even if the manpower existed to go that route we'd end up > regretting it, because then the Rust compiler would need to be able to > handle _all_ the craziness a modern C compiler knows how to do - > preprocessor magic/devilry isn't even the worst of it, it gets even > worse when you start to consider things like bitfields and all the crazy > __attributes__(()) people have invented. Dude, clang can already handle all of that. Both rust and clang are build on top of llvm, they generate the same IR, you can simply feed a string into libclang and get IR out of it, which you can splice into your rust generated IR.
