GSoC Final Report
Pull Request Notes
An overview of the gccrs Drop patches from my GSoC project.
← Back to Final ReportNote. 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.