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Often you are in a situation where you want to try some modifications of some basic library like libcore or some other library with the stage1 compiler, without rebuilding stage1.
A param like --assume-stage=n passed to rustbuild which doesn't (re-)build stage n artifacts would be really neat for this.
@bluss had the original idea, and it would be really useful for development on the i128 PR as well: there, large parts of the libcompiler_builtins crate are under #[cfg(not(stage0))], so I'm only interested in what happens in higher stages when modifying them.