cargo-gccrs VS llvm-project

Compare cargo-gccrs vs llvm-project and see what are their differences.

cargo-gccrs

Gaining support for cargo via rustc-wrapper (by Rust-GCC)

llvm-project

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. (by llvm)
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cargo-gccrs llvm-project
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11 months ago 4 days ago
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cargo-gccrs

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-gccrs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-26.
  • Rust Support Is Being Built into the GNU GCC Compiler
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2023
    We have `cargo-gccrs` for this, so a cargo subcommand which intercepts arguments given to `rustc` and converts them into `gccrs` arguments :)

    https://github.com/rust-GCC/cargo-gccrs/

    it's still in a relatively early stage as we are focusing on the compiler. But the idea is for it to be a drop-in replacement for compilation and execution operations, so you'd have `cargo gccrs build`, `cargo gccrs run`, `cargo gccrs test`, etc

  • GCC gets a new frontend for Rust
    6 projects | /r/programming | 26 Feb 2023
    gccrs is the compiler (like rustc). You can use cargo with gccrs : https://github.com/Rust-GCC/cargo-gccrs
  • GCC Rust front-end approved by GCC Steering Committee
    3 projects | /r/rust | 11 Jul 2022
    See https://github.com/Rust-GCC/cargo-gccrs. There will definetly some sort of cargo support in the end. Either by having a behave-like-rustc wrapper around gccrs or by adding support directly to cargo or a cargo fork.
  • GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2022
    Cargo support for gccrs is part of this project:

    https://github.com/Rust-GCC/cargo-gccrs

    Moreover, modules are less interesting to me in embedded development as is access to Rust's borrow checker for gaining certainty of small portions of larger projects, which are written in other languages.

  • GCC Rust in 2021
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Dec 2021
    - With the [cargo-gccrs](https://github.com/Rust-GCC/cargo-gccrs/) we want to integrate gccrs as seamless as possible into the Rust ecosystem. So yes.

llvm-project

Posts with mentions or reviews of llvm-project. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-07.
  • Qt and C++ Trivial Relocation (Part 1)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2024
    As far as I know, libstdc++'s representation has two advantages:

    First, it simplifies the implementation of `s.data()`, because you hold a pointer that invariably points to the first character of the data. The pointer-less version needs to do a branch there. Compare libstdc++ [1] to libc++ [2].

    [1]: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/065dddc/libstdc++-v3/...

    [2]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/1a96179/libcxx/inc...

    Basically libstdc++ is paying an extra 8 bytes of storage, and losing trivial relocatability, in exchange for one fewer branch every time you access the string's characters. I imagine that the performance impact of that extra branch is tiny, and massively confounded in practice by unrelated factors that are clearly on libc++'s side (e.g. libc++'s SSO buffer is 7 bytes bigger, despite libc++'s string object itself being smaller). But it's there.

    The second advantage is that libstdc++ already did it that way, and to change it would be an ABI break; so now they're stuck with it. I mean, obviously that's not an "advantage" in the intuitive sense; but it's functionally equivalent to an advantage, in that it's a very strong technical answer to the question "Why doesn't libstdc++ just switch to doing it libc++'s way?"

  • Playing with DragonRuby Game Toolkit (DRGTK)
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2024
    This Ruby implementation is based on mruby and LLVM and it’s commercial software but cheap.
  • Add support for Qualcomm Oryon processor
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
  • Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    'Computer Architeture: A Quantitative Apporach" and/or more specific design types (mips, arm, etc) can be found under the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architeture and Design.

    "Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries: Get to Grips With Llvm Essentials and Use the Core Libraries to Build Advanced Tools "

    "The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) : LLVM" https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html

    "Tourist Guide to LLVM source code" : https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453

    llvm home page : https://llvm.org/

    llvm tutorial : https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

    llvm reference : https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

    learn by examples : C source code to 'llvm' bitcode : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9148890/how-to-make-clan...

  • Flang-new: How to force arrays to be allocated on the heap?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024
    See

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/88344

    https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/flang-new-how-to-forc...

  • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
  • Programming from Top to Bottom - Parsing
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    You can never mistake type_declaration with an identifier, otherwise the program will not work. Aside from that constraint, you are free to name them whatever you like, there is no one standard, and each parser has it own naming conventions, unless you are planning to use something like LLVM. If you are interested, you can see examples of naming in different language parsers in the AST Explorer.
  • Look ma, I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    > There is one way to make the LLVM JIT compiler more usable, but I fear it’s going to take years to be implemented: being able to cache and reuse compiled queries.

    Actually, it's implemented in LLVM for years :) https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a98546ebcd2a692e...

  • C++ Safety, in Context
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
    > It's true, this was a CVE in Rust and not a CVE in C++, but only because C++ doesn't regard the issue as a problem at all. The problem definitely exists in C++, but it's not acknowledged as a problem, let alone fixed.

    Can you find a link that substantiates your claim? You're throwing out some heavy accusations here that don't seem to match reality at all.

    Case in point, this was fixed in both major C++ libraries:

    https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/ebf6175464768983a2d...

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4f67a909902d8ab9...

    So what C++ community refused to regard this as an issue and refused to fix it? Where is your supporting evidence for your claims?

  • Clang accepts MSVC arguments and targets Windows if its binary is named clang-cl
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    For everyone else looking for the magic in this almost 7k lines monster, look at line 6610 [1].

    [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/8ec28af8eaff5acd0d...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cargo-gccrs and llvm-project you can also consider the following projects:

rustc_codegen_gcc - libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc

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simh - The Computer History Simulation Project

Lark - Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.

hubris - A lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel for deeply embedded systems.

gcc

gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust

SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer

Rust-for-Linux - Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation

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