Re: Interesting words from gcc.info

[Daniel Barclay <Daniel dot Barclay at digitalfocus dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> The words below were written by Richard Stallman, I believe:
> 
> Reporting Bugs
> **************
> 
>    Your bug reports play an essential role in making GCC reliable.
> 
>    When you encounter a problem, the first thing to do is to see if it
> is already known.  *Note Trouble::.  If it isn't known, then you should
> report the problem.
> 
>    Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem,
> or it may not.  (If it does not, look in the service directory; see
> *Note Service::.)  In any case, the principal function of a bug report
> is to help the entire community by making the next version of GCC work
> better.  Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of GCC.
> 
>    Since the maintainers are very overloaded, we cannot respond to every
> bug report.  However, if the bug has not been fixed, we are likely to
> send you a patch and ask you to tell us whether it works.
> 
> Interesting philosophy.

Any part in particular?  (I'm wondering what you're commenting on.)

Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
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