gcc.texi (Bug Reporting): 40Kb is a soft limit, larger compressed reports are ok...

	* gcc.texi (Bug Reporting): 40Kb is a soft limit, larger
	compressed reports are ok and preferred over URLs

From-SVN: r24126

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index c1250f2b7aa049e56fc8407294459a9ceb6c180e..8cb3bb09010b0a8580b76160132cd5e32f57618d 100644 (file)
--- 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 b0fee64ddcddf4508c55f0dd04ce2ce8df5ff4f4..bf454e178384090c1f8965801b24a66d1447e3b4 100644 (file)
--- 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: