Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust

Posted Oct 2, 2024 10:57 UTC (Wed) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust by pizza
Parent article: Committing to Rust in the kernel

Seems to me that C is a pretty immature language if you need a 9 year old compiler because some platforms are so reluctant to update that unstable mess to a newer version that they are almost 10 major versions behind the current version.

Seems if you try even a little bit portraying the facts to make the process the other side uses look bad is actually pretty easy.

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Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust

Posted Oct 2, 2024 12:12 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Seems to me that C is a pretty immature language if you need a 9 year old compiler because some platforms are so reluctant to update that unstable mess to a newer version that they are almost 10 major versions behind the current version.

For Linux, said 9-year-old compiler is the *minimum* required version, not the *only* version that is supported/expected to work.

(I am typing these words on a system with the most recent Linux release, compiled using the most recent GCC release)

> Seems if you try even a little bit portraying the facts to make the process the other side uses look bad is actually pretty easy.

Another thing that makes you look bad is deliberately mis-stating documented facts.