Rust Language Support

This is a tracking issue for adding support for using Rust language features and the core library with rustc_codegen_spirv.

Language Support

• Closures
• Enums
  • Data-less enums. enum Foo { A, B }
  • Algebraic data types. enum Option<T> { Some(T), None }
• Loops
  • loop
  • while
  • for
• if
• match
• Proc macros
• Try (?) operator
• 128 bit integers
• union
• Compiles on stable
  • Blocked on stabilisation of -Z codegen-backend, also see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77933

Compiler & Library Support

• Debug builds
  • Blocked on #81, #186
• Iterators
• Option<T>

Features that don't work

• Dynamic Dispatch
• Pointer casts
• Unsized slices (&[T])

About Tracking Issues

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