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Rust aims to offer full memory safety for programs, a guarantee that untamed C programs do not enjoy. How difficult is it to translate existing C code to Rust? To get a complementary view from that of automatic C to Rust translators, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ruishi Li , Bo Wang , Tianyu Li , Prateek Saxena , Ashish Kundu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for program translation, particularly for migrating systems code to memory-safe languages such as Rust. However, existing approaches struggle when source programs depend on external libraries:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hanliang Zhang , Arindam Sharma , Cristina David , Meng Wang , Brandon Paulsen , Daniel Kroening , Wenjia Ye , Taro Sekiyama

Rust is a programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control, providing C-like performance while guaranteeing the absence of undefined behaviors by default. Rust's growing popularity has prompted research on safe and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Yoshiki Takashima , Brandon Paulsen , Josiah Dodds , Daniel Kroening

Translating C to Rust is a promising way to enhance the reliability of legacy system programs. Although the industry has developed an automatic C-to-Rust translator, C2Rust, its translation remains unsatisfactory. One major reason is that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jaemin Hong , Sukyoung Ryu

Automating C-to-Rust migration for industrial software remains difficult because build-critical context is scattered across compile configurations, macros, external symbols, and cross-module dependencies, while reusable migration knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shengbo Wang , Mingwei Liu , Guangsheng Ou , Yuwen Chen , Zike Li , Yanlin Wang , Zibin Zheng

The popularity of the Rust language continues to explode; yet, many critical codebases remain authored in C. Automatically translating C to Rust is thus an appealing course of action. Several works have gone down this path, handling an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Aymeric Fromherz , Jonathan Protzenko

The Rust programming language, with its safety guarantees, has established itself as a viable choice for low-level systems programming language over the traditional, unsafe alternatives like C/C++. These guarantees come from a strong…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pantazis Deligiannis , Akash Lal , Nikita Mehrotra , Aseem Rastogi

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for the task of automated code translation, which has important real-world applications. However, most existing approaches use only the source code of a program as an input to an LLM,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Vikram Nitin , Rahul Krishna , Baishakhi Ray

There has been a growing interest in translating C code to Rust due to Rust's robust memory and thread safety guarantees. Tools such as C2RUST enable syntax-guided transpilation from C to semantically equivalent Rust code. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yifei Gao , Chengpeng Wang , Pengxiang Huang , Xuwei Liu , Mingwei Zheng , Xiangyu Zhang

Automatically translating system software from C to Rust is an appealing but challenging problem, as it requires whole-program reasoning to satisfy Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline. A key enabling step in whole-program translation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Victor Chen , Ayden Coughlin , Michael D. Bond

Concurrent programs suffer from data races. To prevent data races, programmers use locks. However, programs can eliminate data races only when they acquire and release correct locks at correct timing. The lock API of C, in which people have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Jaemin Hong , Sukyoung Ryu

Migrating legacy C repositories to Rust promises stronger memory safety, but existing translators often work at the level of files or functions and miss architectural intent. We present RustPrint, a documentation-guided agentic framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Minh Le-Anh , Anh Nguyen Hoang , Bach Le , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Large-scale migration of legacy C code to Rust offers a promising path toward improving memory safety, but LLM-based C-to-Rust translation remains challenging due to limited context windows and hallucinations. Prior approaches are evaluated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Muhammad Farrukh , Baris Coskun , Tapti Palit , Michalis Polychronakis

Dubbed a safer C, Rust is a modern programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control. This interesting combination has made Rust very popular among developers and there is a growing trend of migrating legacy codebases…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hanliang Zhang , Cristina David , Yijun Yu , Meng Wang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code translation, typically evaluated using benchmarks like CodeTransOcean and RepoTransBench. However, dependency-free benchmarks fail to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangsheng Ou , Mingwei Liu , Yuxuan Chen , Yanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language developed by Mozilla that focuses on performance and safety. Rust code is arguably known best for its speed and memory safety, a property essential while developing embedded systems. Thus, it…

Translating C to memory-safe languages, like Rust, prevents critical memory safety vulnerabilities that are prevalent in legacy C software. Even with recent LLM-based and tool-augmented translators, the resulting Rust code frequently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianyu Li , Ruishi Li , Bo Wang , Brandon Paulsen , Umang Mathur , Prateek Saxena

Rust is gaining popularity for its well-known memory safety guarantees and high performance, distinguishing it from C/C++ and JVM-based languages. Its compiler, rustc, enforces these guarantees through specialized mechanisms such as trait…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zixi Liu , Yang Feng , Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li , Xizhe Yin , Qingkai Shi , Baowen Xu , Zhendong Su

Code translation aims to convert source code from one programming language (PL) to another. Given the promising abilities of large language models (LLMs) in code synthesis, researchers are exploring their potential to automate code…

Formal verification can provably guarantee the correctness of critical system software, but the high proof burden has long hindered its wide adoption. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown success in code analysis and synthesis.…

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