Hello Bright Andoh, > > My name is Bright Andoh, and I’m a Computer Engineering student at the > University of Alabama. I’m wrapping up my freshman year and have > experience working with Rust and C. Last fall, I collaborated on some > Rust projects with a friend, and I’m eager to deepen my understanding, > especially in compiler development and large codebases. >
Long time ago, I did contribute to GCC (its plugin infrastructure). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.0779 (perhaps this paper could be relevant to you) A possible approach to your goal might be: become familiar with GCC code base so be able to compile it (on a Linux computer) from source code. Be prepared to spend a few days on that. be able to run the GDB debugger on the GCC compiler (actually its cc1). Be prepared to spend a few days on that. study the source code of the existing Rust compiler https://www.rust-lang.org/, only the front-end (e.g. macros & ownership things). Adapt it to GCC using libgccjit. This means understanding the current rust compiler internals and using libgccjit to feed GCC. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/ so my suggestion could be to prototype your Rust frontend as a GCC plugin (and reuse as much as possible existing frontend from https://www.rust-lang.org/) Be sure to put your experimental code on some publicly available website (github or something else) for other to review it. BTW my current open source project is an inference engine, on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ Thanks -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH <bas...@starynkevitch.net> 8 rue de la Faïencerie 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France http://starynkevitch.net/Basile & https://github.com/bstarynk
