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DARPA suggests turning legacy C code automatically into Rust • The Register (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] killingspark 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is the project c2rust which is being used to transpile c projects to rust. I didn't find any mentions on restrictions in this regard but I obviously agree it's a complicated issue.

, which means it will not be able to cover exactly the same especially in some fringe hacky cases

I'm just not sure this is true. Maybe you and I just don't see that there is always an equivalent solution in rust macros even if it's going to be unconventional/unidiomatic use of rust macros?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe you and I just don't see that there is always an equivalent solution in rust macros even if it's going to be unconventional/unidiomatic use

Maybe so, but large part of where it will be impossible is reproducing bugs introduced by unsanitized macros in C /half joking