rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #1

What is rustc_codegen_gcc?

rustc_codegen_gcc is a GCC codegen for rustc, meaning that it can be loaded by the existing rustc frontend, but benefits from GCC by having more architectures supported and having access to GCC’s optimizations.

libcore’s tests

In a previous article, I mentioned that rustc_codegen_gcc passes most of the tests of libcore. Today, I’m happy to tell you that it passes all of the them:

test result: ok. 1258 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 13.98s

The libcore’s tests now all pass, except the ones requiring SIMD or unwinding which were disabled until those features are implemented.

State of rustc_codegen_gcc

Most of the features that were fixed this last month were to make those tests pass:

  • 128-bit integers

  • floating-point numbers

  • some atomic operations

  • some intrinsics: count leading zeroes, count trailing zeroes, bswap, saturating subtract, bit reverse, bitcast, bit rotate

  • alignment issues

  • some casts

  • some math operations: exactsdiv, fneg

Moreover, those tests now run in the CI.

The next step now was to run the UI tests, which are also ran in the CI:

test result: FAILED 7004 passed; 4070 failed; 87 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 1550.63s

I also started working on handling the different #[inline] attributes, SIMD, LTO and unwinding, but those are not ready yet and most of these features will require a lot more work to reach completion.

I’ll now switch back to focus on fixing the codegen to make the UI tests pass.

As an additional side note, rustc_codegen_gcc will soon be in godbolt, the compiler explorer!

Thanks for your support!

I wanted to personally thank all the people that sponsor this project: your support is very much appreciated.

A special thanks to the following sponsors:

  • saethlin

  • TraverseResearch

  • Shnatsel

Also, a big thank you to the rest of my sponsors:

  • Alovchin91

  • oleid

  • acshi

  • joshtriplett

  • djc

  • TimNN

  • regiontog

  • berkus

  • gilescope

  • wezm

  • belzael

  • evanrichter

  • stuhood

  • yerke

  • bes

  • raymanfx

  • messense

  • riking

  • rafaelcaricio

  • Lemmih

  • memoryruins

  • pthariensflame

  • senden9

  • Hofer-Julian

  • Jonas Platte

  • spike grobstein

  • Oliver Marshall

  • Sam Harrington

and a few others that preferred to stay anonymous.