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Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
link.exe only runs on Windows (barring Wine hacks) and requires a license for commercial usage. We do not have a lot of expertise for this toolchain, and issues often aren't fixed and cause problems in CI that we have a hard time to debug. Builds of both the standard library and the compiler will still be distributed by the Rust Project for use via rustup or alternative installation methods.
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