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-Directives are special comments that tell compiletest how to build and interpret a test. They must appear before the Rust source in the test. They may also appear in `rmake.rs` [run-make tests](compiletest.md#run-make-tests).
+Directives are special comments that tell compiletest how to build and interpret a test.
+They may also appear in `rmake.rs` [run-make tests](compiletest.md#run-make-tests).
 
 They are normally put after the short comment that explains the point of this
 test. Compiletest test suites use `//@` to signal that a comment is a directive.