Commit 4b09b99e by Alexandre Oliva Committed by Jeff Law

gcc.texi: Update bug reporting instructions to match current ezmlm list reality.

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        * gcc.texi: Update bug reporting instructions to match
        current ezmlm list reality.

From-SVN: r25681
parent de4e8527
......@@ -2258,14 +2258,15 @@ 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 soft limit on the
@samp{egcs-bugs@@egcs.cygnus.com} mailing list at the time of this writing
(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.
@code{MIME} or @code{uuencode}. There is a 100k message limit on the
@samp{egcs-bugs@@egcs.cygnus.com} mailing list at the time of this
writing (March 1999). We're trying to create some mechanism for larger
bug reports to be submitted; please check the on-line FAQ for more
up-to-date instructions. Don't think that just 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:
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