Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 28 · Jul 7 – 13, 2025
Stabilizing naked functions
Worth knowinglanguage
- What changed
- The Rust team has stabilized the
#[naked]attribute, allowing functions to be written without a prologue or epilogue. - Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Add
#[naked]to a function and compile withrustc --edition=2021. - Source
- blog.rust-lang.org/2025/07/03/stabilizing-naked-functions/
Understand it, then run it
Run it now
// This program demonstrates a stable naked function in Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024).
// It prints the result of adding two numbers using hand‑written assembly.
#![allow(dead_code)]
#[unsafe(naked)]
pub extern "sysv64" fn add(a: u64, b: u64) -> u64 {
// The assembly loads the arguments from the SysV registers rdi and rsi,
// adds them, and returns the result in rax.
core::arch::naked_asm!(
"lea rax, [rdi + rsi]",
"ret"
);
}
fn main() {
// Call the naked function like any other Rust function.
let result = unsafe { add(10, 32) };
println!("10 + 32 = {}", result);
}
What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)
10 + 32 = 42
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Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed