Building the Rust compiler with GCC
Bootstrapping Rust with GCC
If you know one thing about me, it is that I love working on the Rust compiler. Some people kayak, travel or play guitar - and I stare at assembly, trying to figure out what I broke.
This summer, I am taking on quite a large task: bootstrapping the Rust compiler using `cg_gcc`
What does that mean? "bootstrapping" is simply a name given to the Rust compiler build process.
So, what I am really trying to do is build a Rust compiler, without using LLVM - and using GCC ins...
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