[CFP] Bindings for Rust: bindgen & libclang

[ojeda]

Title

Bindings for Rust: bindgen & libclang

Author

Miguel Ojeda [email protected]

Abstract

bindgen is a tool that generates Rust bindings to C (and C++) code. Internally, it uses libclang to parse it. In the kernel, we employ it to generate the "low-level" unsafe bindings to most of the kernel API surface, which is then wrapped into as-safe-as-possible abstractions. The talk discusses how we currently use the tool, its limitations, and what could be done in e.g. libclang to improve it.

Estimated duration of talk (optional)

~15 minutes.