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The Rust compiler has a comprehensive test suite.
This foundational work item aims to generate initial test reports from that test suite for the riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu Rust compiler target triple.
Along the way, this work items aims to highlight any perceivable risks for current and future work.

Sub-tasks

Number	Item	Description	Status	Notes	Resources

Number	Item	Description	Status	Notes	Resources
1	Test Environment	Target platform selection	Complete	Selection qemu-system-riscv64's virt machine emulation as the target platform
		Basic Linux test environment creation	Complete	Selected Ubuntu Linux (riscv64) as the target filesystem	Ubuntu Linux for RISC-V 64-bit systems
		Design of a testing strategy	Complete	Decided to build and run the compiler and test assets 'natively' on the above test environment (Experimented with cross compilation but that threw up known errors that were deemed invalid) Decided to execute the test runner manually once the test assets were built
2	Rust Compiler	Verify that the Rust Compiler builds and runs natively for the risc64-unknown-linux-gnu target triple	Complete	All OK. No special mods needed.
3	Rust Compiler Test Suite	Verify that the Rust Compiler test suite builds and runs natively for the riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu target triple	Complete	All OK. No special mods needed. Issue encountered with docker image for RISC-V Rust.	PR raised to fix docker image for RISC-V Rust. Fixes merged.
4	Rust Compiler Test Report	Generate initial compiler test results	Complete	Some codegen test failures seen.	PR raised to address test failures. Fixes merged.

All outline sub-tasks above were completed.
There were a small number of test failures but those were for tests irrelevant for the riscv64 Linux rust target. Details are here.