Cohen: gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust

Arthur Cohen has posted adetailed introduction to the gccrs project on the Rust Blog, seeminglywith the goal of convincing the Rust community about the value of theproject.

Likewise, many GCC plugins are used for increasing the safety ofcritical projects such as the Linux kernel, which has recentlygained support for the Rust programming language. This makesgccrs a useful tool for analyzing unsafe Rust code, andmore generally Rust code which has to interact with existing Ccode. We also want gccrs to be a useful tool forrustc itself by helping pan out the Rust specificationeffort with a unique viewpoint - that of a tool trying to replicateanother's functionality, oftentimes through careful experimentationand source reading where the existing documentation did not go intoenough detail.

(LWN last looked at gccrs in October).