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There's non-LLM research towards doing this which has a few success stories: https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

LLMs seem generally unsuited for the task, because they're fundamentally approximators that won't always get things right, and as a result will introduce subtle bugs. Perhaps if you paired them with some sort of formal methods... I'm not aware of anyone doing that. Tests aren't sufficient - lots of subtle bugs will not be caught by existing test suites.

Your idea of "smaller" projects is not... smaller enough. See the actual success stories for example: https://github.com/immunant/c2rust?tab=readme-ov-file#uses-o...



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