Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space

On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 03:15:22PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <78BC157F-6E30-49C4-931D-9EB539BD0322@digitaldaemon.com>, Jan 
> Kneppe
> r writes:
> > D
> >
> > www.dlang.org
> 
> The problem with D is data structure definitions need to also be mirrored 
> (duplicated) in D. For example, when 64-bit inodes were implemented D 
> failed to build and generate any code. The reason for this was 
> ufs/ufs/inode.h now defined 64-bit inodes while the D representation as 
> provided by the D language were still 32-bit. I had opened an issue with 
> upstream regarding this. To this day they still haven't figured out how to 
> implement 64-bit inodes on newer FreeBSD systems while maintaining 32-bit 
> inode backward compatibility on older FreeBSD systems (as FreeBSD 
> implemented this using ifunc).

Rust is same.  It still uses pre-ino64 bindings for both stdlib and libc.