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A guide to how rustc works and how to contribute to it.
The zulip thread for the reading club initiative is https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/196385-t-compiler.2Fwg-rustc-dev-guide/topic/Rustc.20dev.20guide.20reading.20club, but the actual meetings happened in separate threads which easily becomes burried in the channel. We should add a smol...
> [!NOTE] > The issue description has been rewritten by @fmease. --- See its API docs: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_hir_analysis/hir_ty_lowering/index.html. The chapter should explain: - [ ] Meaning & origin of its current...
We should be talking about how the `librustc_resolve` crate works here. Some topics of interest: - [ ] Handling scopes within the crate - [x] What is a rib? (#22)...
Recently support landed in rustc for dynamically loading LLVM. It would be nice if the rustc-guide documented how to switch to a custom LLVM backend. I'm not sure if this...
Over in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47935, @michaelwoerister wrote: > The \[dependency tracking\] readme is largely outdated. The "Testing the dependency graph" and "Debugging the dependency graph" sections are still correct, I think, but...
It's been mentioned to me that it would be useful to have a list of all the "desugarings" that occur during the compilation process. In particular, which bits of Rust...
I recently wrote a clippy lint that deals with attributes (mostly outer attributes) and found very little information on how they are implemented. Most of the information I gathered through...
While reviewing https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/50302 i noticed that these test folders aren't mentioned in the testing chapter at all. Since the linked PR adds a special configuration flag to the `rustdoc-js` tests,...
Recently while working on `rustc` I mused that a certain task would have been easier if I could have plugged in a different version of the `ena` crate. It is...
