diff --git a/docs/13-baremetal.md b/docs/13-baremetal.md
index 4c0ac8d8..40fcf95d 100644
--- a/docs/13-baremetal.md
+++ b/docs/13-baremetal.md
@@ -323,14 +323,28 @@ obligation rather than a convenience: `memcpy`, `memmove`, `memset` and `memcmp`
 must exist because the compiler lowers structure assignment and array
 initialisation onto them. `std-freestanding-nolibc` supplies those and `strlen`.
 
-⚠️ `std-freestanding` and `std-freestanding-nolibc` serve **mutually exclusive**
-arrangements. The subset needs the C library's headers — measured: on the
-zero-libc tier it fails at compile with `'inttypes.h' file not found` — so a
-project that can use the subset has a C library and does not need the five
-functions, while a project on the zero-libc tier cannot use the subset at all.
-
-⚠️ That package is for the zero-libc tier only, and using it alongside a C
-library fails silently rather than loudly. A C library ships as an archive, and
+The subset composes with this tier rather than excluding it. `std-freestanding`
+with `features = ["nolibc"]` compiles against no C library at all, and measured,
+**94 of its 103 headers** do. The obstacle was never that the subset wants a C
+library: libc++ ships wrappers for the C headers — `string.h` and its siblings —
+which reach the real header through `#include_next` to obtain `size_t`,
+`mbstate_t`, `time_t` and `EOF`. With no C library the chain has nothing to
+continue to, and the wrapper fails on a missing *type* rather than a missing
+header, which is why the cause is not evident from the error. Four small headers
+restore the chain, and the feature is what pulls them in.
+
+A board-support package can serve this tier too, and for the same reason it is
+worth having one at all. Where a machine's UART is, where its RAM begins and
+which emulator boots it are not C library facts:
+
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+riscv-virt-rt = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["nolibc"] }
+```
+
+⚠️ `std-freestanding-nolibc` is what that feature resolves to, and adding it
+**directly** alongside a C library fails silently rather than loudly. A C library
+ships as an archive, and
 an archive member is pulled only while the symbol is still undefined; a
 dependency package's object files enter the link unconditionally. The package
 therefore defines `memcpy` first, the C library's member is never pulled, and
diff --git a/docs/zh/13-baremetal.md b/docs/zh/13-baremetal.md
index 18f5649e..dfe9f6b8 100644
--- a/docs/zh/13-baremetal.md
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@@ -293,11 +293,23 @@ freestanding 翻译单元仍会用到的 C 函数中,有四个是义务而非便
 `memmove`、`memset` 与 `memcmp` 必须存在,因为编译器把结构体赋值与数组初始化下降到
 它们之上。`std-freestanding-nolibc` 提供这四个与 `strlen`。
 
-⚠️ `std-freestanding` 与 `std-freestanding-nolibc` 服务于**互斥**的安排。子集需要
-C 库的头文件 —— 实测:零 libc 档上它在编译期即死于 `'inttypes.h' file not found`
-—— 因此能用子集的工程有 C 库、不需要这五个函数,而处在零 libc 档的工程根本用不了子集。
+子集与这一档是**组合**关系而非互斥。`std-freestanding` 带 `features = ["nolibc"]`
+时在完全没有 C 库的情况下编译,实测其 **103 个头中的 94 个**可用。障碍从来不是子集
+需要一个 C 库:libc++ 为 C 头文件提供了包装头 —— `string.h` 及其同类 —— 它们通过
+`#include_next` 续到真正的头去取 `size_t`、`mbstate_t`、`time_t` 与 `EOF`。没有
+C 库时这条链无处可续,包装头死在缺**类型**而不是缺头文件上,这正是从报错看不出成因的
+原因。四个很小的头把链续上,而该 feature 负责把它们引进来。
 
-⚠️ 该包仅用于零 libc 档,而与 C 库并用时是**静默**失败而非响亮失败。C 库以归档形式
+板级支持包同样可以服务这一档,理由与"为什么要有板级包"是同一条:一台机器的 UART 在哪、
+RAM 从哪开始、哪个模拟器启动它,没有一条是 C 库事实:
+
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+riscv-virt-rt = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["nolibc"] }
+```
+
+⚠️ `std-freestanding-nolibc` 正是该 feature 解析到的包,而**直接**把它与 C 库并用时
+是**静默**失败而非响亮失败。C 库以归档形式
 发布,归档成员只在符号仍未定义时才被拉入;而依赖包的目标文件无条件进入链接。于是该包
 先定义了 `memcpy`,C 库的成员从不被拉入,构建**成功** —— 程序拿到的是逐字节实现而不是
 C 库经过优化的那份,且没有任何提示。实测(picolibc 在场):冷构建链接通过,`nm` 只找到