if multiple -Z allow-features are passed, only the last is used

[jyn514]

I tried this code:

rustc +nightly -Zallow-features=ffi_pure -Z allow-features=rustc_attrs src/main.rs

I expected to see this happen: A hard error. It does not make sense to combine allow-features; should they be OR-d or AND-ed?

Instead, this happened: Neither an OR nor an AND. Instead the first flag was ignored altogether.

error[E0725]: the feature `ffi_pure` is not in the list of allowed features
 --> src/main.rs:2:12
  |
2 | #![feature(ffi_pure, rustc_private)]
  |            ^^^^^^^^

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rustc --version --verbose: rustc 1.88.0-nightly (78f2104 2025-04-16)

[jieyouxu]

Tbh I kinda expected -Zallow-features=ffi_pure -Z allow-features=rustc_attrs would be equivalent to e.g. -Zallow-features=ffi_pure,rustc_attrs but then I remembered the -Zallow-features= case...

[jyn514]

yeah i think if we combine them at all it should be an AND, not an OR. but it would be better to give a hard error imo, and we certainly shouldn't silently discard one of them. the whole point of allow-features is that different parties do not trust each other, we should never silently ignore an allow-features flag.