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| author | Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> | 1998-12-06 02:01:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gcc.gnu.org> | 1998-12-06 02:01:26 +0000 |
| commit | badcf9162061ffc55860447d372eeb982fa0c2e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6076a4e921c7e03c15a2d6c29748451fbf01fde6 | |
| parent | 892d0a6dfc69e07739dc787429f9638a5073d8e0 (diff) | |
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gcc.texi (Bug Reporting): 40Kb is a soft limit, larger compressed reports are ok and preferred over URLs
* gcc.texi (Bug Reporting): 40Kb is a soft limit, larger
compressed reports are ok and preferred over URLs
From-SVN: r24126
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index c1250f2..8cb3bb0 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Sun Dec 6 07:49:29 1998 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> + + * gcc.texi (Bug Reporting): 40Kb is a soft limit, larger + compressed reports are ok and preferred over URLs + Sun Dec 6 07:45:33 1998 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> * invoke.texi (Warning Options): Soften the tone of -pedantic diff --git a/gcc/gcc.texi b/gcc/gcc.texi index b0fee64..bf454e1 100644 --- a/gcc/gcc.texi +++ b/gcc/gcc.texi @@ -2252,9 +2252,14 @@ If you include source code in your message, you can send it as clear text if it is small. If the message is larger, you may compress it using @file{gzip}, @file{bzip2}, or @file{pkzip}. Please be aware that sending compressed files needs an additional binary-safe mechanism such as -@code{MIME} or @code{uuencode}. There is a 40k message limit on the +@code{MIME} or @code{uuencode}. There is a 40k message soft limit on the @samp{egcs-bugs@@cygnus.com} mailing list at the time of this writing -(August 1998). +(August 1998). However, if you can't reduce a bug report to less than +that, post it anyway; it will be manually approved as long as it is +compressed. Don't think that posting a URL to the code is better, we do +want to archive bug reports, and not all maintainers have good network +connectivity to download large pieces of software when they need them; +it's much easier for them to have them in their mailboxes. To enable someone to investigate the bug, you should include all these things: |