GCC Rust Monthly Report #7 June 2021
In the month of June, I’ve focused on working with Trait impl blocks, and enforcing their obligations. This includes associated types and optional traits which are still in progress but need some cleanup and testing. I believe that Traits break down into three phases:
Now the first part is almost complete, but it is hard to say if I am 100% on track as TypeBounds have been a tricky one to work on; though over the next few weeks if progress remains steady we will be in a good place.
We had our monthly community call on jitsi please find the meeting notes here: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/Reporting/blob/main/2021-07-02-community-call.md
Recently I noticed that the test suite numbers didn’t really match up to what I epxected. Thomas has cleaned this up again. Since the front-end is still early on there are many features of Rust we do not support yet so we have an unsupported set of tests that are now marked with XFAIL since we expect these tests to fail, since they are not supported yet. We still contain expected failure test cases such as ensuring we error correctly for bad types, for example, the only difference now is that these expected failures are now counted as a normally expected pass.
Thanks to our new contributor John Paul Adrian Glaubitz has been testing GCC Rust on as many architectures as he can which has resulted in many bug fixes for our TargetOptions support. This is key for Arthur’s google summer of code project, but also for cfg expansions.
