rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-bindgen
Tracking Issue: C++ features `bindgen` cannot handle
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Description
This issue tracks any C++ features that cannot be translated into Rust by bindgen:
- Templates:
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/24: cannot be handled due to Rust lacking support for generics specialization.
- Virtual tables:
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
This is a tracking issue for C++ features that bindgen cannot translate, with templates linked to rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/24 and virtual tables linked to issue 27. Start by reading those linked issues and the bindgen C++ translation behavior; the payload names no file, test, or single actionable scope, so completion is not defined.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, rust
- Domain
- compilers, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100