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Document interaction between incremental compilation and diagnostics
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Description
The incremental compilation infrastructure has special handling for diagnostics - we capture any diagnostics emitted during query execution, and then re-emit them if the result is loaded from disk.
We should document this handling in the chapter on incremental compilation.
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Start with the rustc-dev-guide chapter on incremental compilation and locate its discussion of diagnostics. Document that diagnostics emitted during query execution are captured and re-emitted when a result is loaded from disk. Done means the interaction is explained clearly in that chapter.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100