February 2026 Monthly report

Overview

Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and Embecosm for their ongoing support for this project.

Project update

We have submitted an abstract to the RustConf call-for-papers, where we hope to present various interesting compiler stories about our journey towards core and compiling the Linux kernel. If accepted, Pierre-Emmanuel and Arthur will be looking forward to meeting everyone in Montreal in September. gccrs will also be at Embedded World in Nuremberg, so feel free to drop by and talk about the project!

Work during the month of February has been a bit slower, between professional travel and holidays. Nevertheless, Pierre-Emmanuel kept chipping away at getting certain Rust-for-Linux crates to compile, namely by reworking our attribute handling to allow more unstable features to be processed by gccrs. This meant reworking our pipeline once again, in order to split the cfg-stripping into two passes, much like we split name resolution into multiple passes last year.

For the work on core, we are now one import resolution issue away from getting to typechecking. We hope to fix this particular import in the coming weeks, and to keep progressing on other middle-end core issues.

We have started receiving interest from potential Google Summer of Code students, which is always heartwarming - we look forward to your contributions and proposals as the application date grows closer.

Community call

We will have our next monthly community call on the 17th of March at 10am UTC. You can subscribe to our calendar to see when the next one will be held. The call is open to everyone, even if you would just like to sit-in and listen. You can also subscribe to our mailing-list or join our Zulip chat to be notified of upcoming events.

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• iCal link

Call for contribution

• https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/issues/2500

• https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/issues/2376

Completed Activities

• testsuite: Add test case for macro invocation missing body PR4449
• Add no_std attribute PR4447
• Sync with upstream (2026-02-14): 3a1bb1b70d017e4816650ed42d316accf2d93944 PR4439
• expand: Fix ICE on unimplemented RustcEncodable/Decodable derives PR4437
• ast: Fix missing location info in derive macros PR4435
• Remove `ProcMacroInvocLexer` PR4430
• gccrs : TypeCheck : Enhance missing fields error message PR4429
• parser: Fix rogue null pointer in null_{denotationpath} PR4427
• Improve feature collection and permit macro attribute input PR4425
• refactor: cleanup macro invoc PR4423
• parse: Fix ICE when using ‘dyn’ without trait bound PR4421
• parser: Fix ICE in AnonConst when expression parsing fails PR4420
• util/attributes: Fix ICE on bare #[deprecated] attribute PR4419
• Make `AST::Crate` final PR4418
• parser: Fix segfault in parse_{arithmeticorlogicalexpr} PR4417
• ci: fix send email workflow in case of large commit log PR4416
• derive: Implement reconstruct_path helper for cmp PR4395
• derive: Implement make_{qualifiedcall} helper PR4394
• Add wrapper class for automatic node cloning PR4350

Contributors this month

• Maulik Barot (new contributor!)
• Islam Imad (new contributor!)
• Jayant Chauhan
• Marc Poulhiès
• Harishankar
• Owen Avery
• Pierre-Emmanuel Patry
• Arthur Cohen

Overall Task Status

Bugs

Test Cases

Milestones Progress

Planned Activities

• Finish bug fixing on last complex core import
• Continue investigating Rust-for-Linux crate issues