C2Rust with Stephen Crane
Rustacean Station
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C to Rust - How to Parse C Source Code
Any tool that operates on C code has to know the precise details of how it's compiled. The preprocessor in C does different things depending on what was defined of the command line and what compiler options you passed. We actually use a tool standard format. Compile commands dot JSON. Clang supports this as a first class thing. If your C source code is fairly, fairly standard, you're not doing any weird things, you can just cargo run and you'll have a completely unsafe rust project That is equivalent to the C project.
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