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### Overview

- Stage 0: the pre-compiled compiler
- Stage 0: the pre-compiled compiler and standard library
- Stage 1: from current code, by an earlier compiler
- Stage 2: the truly current compiler
- Stage 3: the same-result test
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artifacts'). If you're working on the standard library, this is normally the
test command you want.
- `./x build --stage 0` means to build with the stage0 `rustc`.
- `./x doc --stage 0` means to document using the stage0 `rustdoc`.
- `./x doc --stage 1` means to document using the stage0 `rustdoc`.

#### Examples of what *not* to do

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In short, _stage 0 uses the `stage0` compiler to create `stage0` artifacts which
will later be uplifted to be the stage1 compiler_.

In each stage, two major steps are performed:
In each stage besides 0, two major steps are performed:

1. `std` is compiled by the stage N compiler.
2. That `std` is linked to programs built by the stage N compiler, including the
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