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+# Copyright 2020 René Ferdinand Rivera Morell
+# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+# (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+# http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+import feature ;
+
+#| tag::doc[]
+
+[[bbv2.builtin.features.compileflags]]`cflags`::
+The value of this feature is passed without modification to the corresponding
+tools. The values from the `compileflags` is applied to all compilation of any
+language for the tools.
+
+|# # end::doc[]
+
+feature.feature compileflags
+    :
+    : free ;