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meithecatte on Jan 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust

GCC is no longer written in C, but in C++. They switched after GCC 4.7.

saagarjha on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

Of course, much of the code is still C.

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