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Expand Up @@ -573,8 +573,7 @@ The top level of this tree is a module that is anonymous (from the point of view

The Rust compiler is always invoked with a single source file as input, and always produces a single output crate.
The processing of that source file may result in other source files being loaded as modules.
Source files typically have the extension `.rs` but, by convention,
source files that represent crates have the extension `.rc`, called *crate files*.
Source and crate files typically have the extension `.rs`.

A Rust source file describes a module, the name and
location of which -- in the module tree of the current crate -- are defined
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you would set it to `rustc::metadata::creader`. To see just error logging
use `rustc=0`.

Note that when compiling either `.rs` or `.rc` files that don't specify a
Note that when compiling either `source` or `crate` files that don't specify a
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nit: no need for backticks here, "source" and "crate" are not code examples.

crate name the crate is given a default name that matches the source file,
with the extension removed. In that case, to turn on logging for a program
compiled from, e.g. `helloworld.rs`, `RUST_LOG` should be set to `helloworld`.
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