[solarized]

Do they use any llm to transpile the C to Rust ?

[Twirrim]

If you're going to use tools to transpile, don't use something that hallucinates. You want it to be precise.

https://github.com/immunant/c2rust reportedly works pretty well. Blog post from a few years ago of them transpiling quake3 to rust: https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/. The rust produced ain't pretty, but you can then start cleaning it up and making it more "rusty"

[dataking]

They indeed used c2rust for the initial transpile according to https://trifectatech.org/blog/translating-bzip2-with-c2rust/

[solarized]

So, have the "toxic" people from StackExchange migrated here too? I just asked out of curiosity and got downvoted. :Sigh

[nightfly]

Task that requires precision and potentially hard to audit? Exactly where I'd use an LLM /s

[CGamesPlay]

Without commenting on whether an LLM is the right approach, I don't think this task is particularly hard to audit. There is almost assuredly a huge test suite for bzip2 archives; fuzzing file formats is very easy; and you can restrict / audit the use of unsafe by the translator.