Initial GCC Rust Front-End Compiler Patches Submitted For Review

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Following this month'sapproval by the steering committee of GCC Rustas a compiler front-end for the Rust programming language, the first formal series has been sent out for review.GCC-Rust has been coming together nicely and now with having the blessing of the steering committee,GCC 13 next year should have this preliminary Rust supportbut still in early form. For example, the borrow checker and other features have still to be tackled.Herron Philip on Wednesday sent out "Rust frontend patches v1" as a set of four patches laying out the initial code. He wrote on thegcc-patches list, "This is the initial version 1 patch set for the Rust front-end. There are more changes that need to be extracted out for all the target hooks we have implemented. The goal is to see if we are implementing the target hooks information for x86 and arm. We have more patches for the other targets I can add in here but they all follow the pattern established here."These GCC Rust patches have been re-based atop …