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Comment by qwm

2 months ago

If only Rust had a spec to do that with

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sophacles  2 months ago

I don't think they should be defined in terms of any programming language. They should be defined in terms of the architecture - bits, bytes, words and instructions, along with semantics of use. Like we do with networking protocols and file formats.

steveklabnik  2 months ago

It's being worked on! https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3470

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