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crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

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crustc translates rustc to C, highly technical and novel open source project.

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Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. . Contribute to FractalFir/crustc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Summary

The crustc project translates rustc 1.98.0-nightly into 46 million lines of C, producing a functional compiler buildable with GCC and make. It showcases cilly, a Rust-to-C compiler backend that adapts to any C compiler via witness programs and supports network-transparent cross-compilation over TCP for obscure targets. This aims to eliminate the portability gap for Rust on platforms without LLVM/GCC, such as Plan9 or Z80 systems.

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FractalFir