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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now if only gccrs would mature soon!

LLVM-based is fine for most case, but I bet a lot of people would want to stick with gcc for compiling the kernel.

[–] Giooschi 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For that usecase rustc_codegen_gcc works too and is much more likely to be mature soon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It seems to still require LLVM, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What makes you think that? The whole point of it is to create a rustc backend that uses libgccjit instead of LLVM.