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  • Re: Making a C compiler in Rust

    From ReK2 Hispagatos@rek2@usenet_reborn.tui to alt.2600,alt.2600.madrid on Thu Sep 24 21:02:50 2026
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    [X-posted from comp.lang.c, originally by Dave Yeo]

    Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    The major reason to write a compiler in C, is of course the ability to bootstrap the compiler with someone else's C compiler. That's a major
    issue for some programming languages, such as Rust, which do not have a compiler for OS/2.

    I added comp.os.os2.programmer.misc to this discussion. Is there some-
    one there who would want a Rust compiler for OS/2? I don't know. Nor
    do I know if it's possible to port rustc to OS/2, Warp or otherwise.

    Yes, OS/2 needs a Rust compiler, hoping the upcoming port of GCC 16.x
    includes it but not sure.
    The problem with Rust is our limited 32 bit address space. Even some
    modern C++ code stretches the limits with one process using up to 2GB+
    of ram, so need to do make -j1 sometimes. Need Warp v4.5+ to access the
    memory above 1 GB as well.
    Dave

    Dave
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