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authorHavvy (Ryan Scheel) <ryan.havvy@gmail.com>2018-10-15 21:35:56 -0700
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[Rustc Book] Explain --cfg's arguments
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ This flag will print out help information for `rustc`.
 
 This flag can turn on or off various `#[cfg]` settings.
 
+The value can either be a single identifier or two identifiers separated by `=`.
+
+For examples, `--cfg 'verbose'` or `--cfg 'feature=serde'`. These correspond
+to `#[cfg(verbose)]` and `#[cfg(feature = "serde")]` respectively.
+
 ## `-L`: add a directory to the library search path
 
 When looking for external crates, a directory passed to this flag will be searched.