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On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:59:11PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:

> I suspect even if the manpower existed to go that route we'd end up
> regretting it, because then the Rust compiler would need to be able to
> handle _all_ the craziness a modern C compiler knows how to do -
> preprocessor magic/devilry isn't even the worst of it, it gets even
> worse when you start to consider things like bitfields and all the crazy
> __attributes__(()) people have invented.

Dude, clang can already handle all of that. Both rust and clang are
build on top of llvm, they generate the same IR, you can simply feed a
string into libclang and get IR out of it, which you can splice into
your rust generated IR.