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No. Lots of languages can give you a dump in 1 standard of C. You can't specify what C standard, or what platform to output outside of ARM/x64. NIM, Cython, C+

No. Lots of languages can give you a dump in 1 standard of C. You can't specify what C standard, or what platform to output outside of ARM/x64. NIM, Cython, C++ (via clang), [Ada/Cobalt/Fortran]-GCC, Perl, Agol, Oracle PL/SQL only support x86_64 and ARM. Your argument was interoperability and portability 1) Rust outputs to the same object file format as C, and can be natively linked against C/C++ code. So interoperability is no issue. 2) You have no portability gain as you have 3 choices x86, x64, and ARM. All of which Rust already supports. Also your main request $ rustc your_program.rs --emit llvm-ir $ llc -march=c -o your_program.c your_program.ll or if you want C++ $ rustc your_program.rs --emit llvm-ir $ llc -march=cpp -o your_program.cpp your_program.ll

jjnoakes 10y ago
Who needs more than one dialect of C or C++? I don't. Any systems I'm interested in may not support clang, but they have C11 compilers and C++14 compilers. Rust is not interoperable with C++ as far as I know, and even if it was, I'm not interested in Rust for this discussion for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere. The LLVM C backend was removed. Julia devs have a version that supports the LLVM bit code that they require, but I believe it is not everything LLVM can produce. I was under the impression that march=cpp output C++ code that rebuilt the IR, not implemented the source program. Thanks for the advice, although none of it really applies to what I'm suggesting.