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0 pointskibwen11y ago0 comments

Actually, one of the first tools to appear in the Rust ecosystem was a port of the "bindgen" program written for the Clay language, which has been solving the problem of parsing C headers for years now:

https://github.com/crabtw/rust-bindgen/

There are also long-term plans for adopting this into the compiler itself:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2124

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simias11y ago

Ah, thank you, I knew I saw something like that when I looked into rust a while back, but there was no mention of it in the Rust FFI guide[1]. It should definitely be included in the compiler at some point, it's a vital feature IMO.

[1] http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/guide-ffi.html

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