Rust: Compiling the alloc crate - Status Report 4
Project / Subsystem
gcc / rust
Date
2026-07-14
Proposer
Enes Cevik <enes@nsvke.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Using stub implementations for missing language items allows progress on higher-level components, but full implementation is required for complete functionality.
- • Compiling the 'core' module as a separate library is cleaner but currently blocked by complex trait bounds, necessitating a temporary submodule approach with its own drawbacks.
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- Rust: Compiling the alloc crate - Status Report 4
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- Rust: Compiling the alloc crate - Status Report 4
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- Developer reports progress on compiling Rust's alloc crate with GCCRS, completing the testsuite and identifying missing language items.
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- Enes Cevik <enes@nsvke.com>
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- Proposed
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- • Using stub implementations for missing language items allows progress on higher-level components, but full implementation is required for complete functionality.
- • Compiling the 'core' module as a separate library is cleaner but currently blocked by complex trait bounds, necessitating a temporary submodule approach with its own drawbacks.
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- 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
Rust: Compiling the alloc crate - Status Report 4
Enes Cevik provides the fourth status report on compiling Rust’s alloc crate using GCC’s Rust compiler (GCCRS). Progress includes completing the alloc testsuite, enabling compilation up to name resolution with a mock core module, and identifying four missing language items: ‘range_inclusive_new’, ‘pin’, ‘unpin’, and ‘unsafe_cell’. The immediate priority is to fully implement these, while also working to compile the mock core module as an external library.