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Article #10071gdb return short bugs
From: Jim Kingdon
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 1990 03:42
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 1990 03:42
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I don't think that bug report got through the first time. It's not in
my file. There is a backlog of dealing with GDB bugs since I quit
working for the Free Software Foundation (and quit maintaining GDB),
but they are being saved for when someone has time to look at them
all. Please keep sending them.
Is this a bug? Is it known? Any plans for a fix?
Keep in mind that the purpose of the buglists is *not* to fix your
problem; it is to improve GNU software in general. The Free Software
Foundation does plan to fix all bugs which are reported, but won't
necessarily do it as quickly as you want to. Nor will it necessarily
send out the patch as soon as it comes up with it; that would take a
lot of time and help a small number of people. Asking about known
bugs is not useful, since the only reason to know about a bug is to
fix it (since the foundation doesn't provide support in terms of
suggested workarounds or even mailed diffs of fixes). Thus, it
doesn't really matter whether the bug is known; submit your bug report
as if it is not known.
If you want more, you'll have to pay for it. Hire someone in the
service directory (file SERVICE in the emacs distribution), buy a
support contract from Cygnus, etc.
Having said that, the foundation does attempt to make GNU software
bug-free and tries to release new versions often enough so that fixes
are available not *too* long after bugs are reported. So as well as
the good you do to everyone by submitting a good bug report, you may
also help yourself, even though you cannot count on a quick fix.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5053,db7f457879c3d2ca X-Google-Attributes: gidf5053,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-07-09 20:42:07 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!kingdon From: kingdon@AI.MIT.EDU (Jim Kingdon) Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Subject: gdb return short bugs Message-ID: <9007100342.AA05581@rice-chex> Date: 10 Jul 90 03:42:07 GMT References: <9007092247.AA04742@speed.io.uucp> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 29 Posted: Tue Jul 10 04:42:07 1990