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diff --git a/src/doc/unstable-book/src/compiler-flags/rustc-bootstrap.md b/src/doc/unstable-book/src/compiler-flags/rustc-bootstrap.md index 6895f232238..1520b86341b 100644 --- a/src/doc/unstable-book/src/compiler-flags/rustc-bootstrap.md +++ b/src/doc/unstable-book/src/compiler-flags/rustc-bootstrap.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Crates can fully opt out of unstable features by using [`#![forbid(unstable_feat In particular, nightly is built with beta, and beta is built with stable. Since the standard library and compiler both use unstable features, `RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP` is required so that we can use the previous version to build them. -## Why is this environment variable so easy to use for people not in the rust project? +## Why is this environment variable so easy to use for people not in the Rust project? Originally, `RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP` required passing in a hash of the previous compiler version, to discourage using it for any purpose other than bootstrapping. That constraint was later relaxed; see <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/36548> for the discussion that happened at that time. |