The Rust GCC backend can now be installed with rustup

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Starting tomorrow (23rd of January 2026), you will be able (on linux without cross-compilation) to install and use the Rust GCC backend directly from rustup! To do so:

rustup component add rustc-codegen-gcc

Thanks a lot to Kobzol for all their work to making it a reality!

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/151156