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Article #53067How to report problems effectively
From: Richard Stallman
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 08:17
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 08:17
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* If you build GCC according to the instructions, and it gets compilation errors, please assume that is a bug. * When you find a bug, report it *by mail* to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu. Don't post as news and don't use gnu.gcc.help. * Always state the precise configuration that you built GCC for, and the precise options you used in a compilation that failed. * When the problem involves a compiler error message, *show the source code around that line*. The current sources are different, so the line numbers in the messages will not reliably show where the error is. So include the source code in your message (assuming you would like the bug to be fixed). Yes, maintainers could get an unmodified copy of the release and look there, but this is extra work. We can barely keep up with fixing the bugs as it is. So please help by making it easy for us. * Try to investigate the problem when you can. For example, if you get a problem with a system symbol that is undefined, figure out why! You know C. You can figure out why a symbol isn't defined in a C program like GCC. Look at the header files and see what they do. If you don't do this, we may be unable to do it for you. We don't know what is in the header files on your machine. That's one of the reasons we ask that you send test cases as cpp output--to resolve any uncertainty over header files. Besides, if the maintainers have to do the whole job for every bug report, we can't keep up with them.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,7126e381040b8b8e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-12 10:38:52 PST Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!gnu.ai.mit.edu!rms From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) Subject: How to report problems effectively Message-ID: <9203121817.AA29432@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 08:17:03 GMT Lines: 35