GSoC Final Report

Pull Request Notes

An overview of the gccrs Drop patches from my GSoC project.

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Note. All development during this project was submitted directly to the upstream Rust-GCC/gccrs repository.

Below are the merged and active Drop-related contributions covered by this report. The detailed notes are based mainly on my pull request descriptions and commit messages. Each page also links to the related test cases.

Read the Design Note for the full design story, or view all of my gccrs pull requests on GitHub.

4 pull requests

Drop foundation and block scopes

Register Drop in gccrs, add the first automatic Drop calls, and record the expected order with tests.

3 pull requests

Function exits and return values

Handle tail expressions, function parameters, and explicit returns without changing evaluation order.

4 pull requests

Structured cleanup and control flow

Move cleanup into GCC tree structure and apply it to block scopes, function scopes, and unlabeled break and continue paths.

4 pull requests

BIR and CFG Drop analysis

Track moves in BIR so backend cleanup can skip values that are no longer initialized.

1 pull request

Additional Drop test coverage

Add execute tests for Drop behavior that was already supported but did not yet have direct coverage.

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