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Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2023 01:19:14 -0800
From:   Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] rust: file: add Rust abstraction for `struct file`
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 09:53:28AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 07:25:01AM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:42:26AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 09:08:14AM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > 
> > > > But but but, I then realized we have asm goto in C but Rust doesn't
> > > > support them, and I haven't thought through how hard tht would be..
> > > 
> > > You're kidding right?
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm not, but I've found this:
> > 
> > 	https://github.com/Amanieu/rfcs/blob/inline-asm/text/0000-inline-asm.md#asm-goto
> 
> Reading that makes all this even worse, apparently rust can't even use
> memops.

What do you mean by "memops"?

Regards,
Boqun

> 
> So to summarise, Rust cannot properly interop with C, it cannot do
> inline asm from this side of the millenium. Why are we even trying to
> use it again?