From badcf9162061ffc55860447d372eeb982fa0c2e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 02:01:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- gcc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gcc/gcc.texi | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index c1250f2b7aa..8cb3bb09010 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Sun Dec 6 07:49:29 1998 Alexandre Oliva + + * 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 * invoke.texi (Warning Options): Soften the tone of -pedantic diff --git a/gcc/gcc.texi b/gcc/gcc.texi index b0fee64ddcd..bf454e17838 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: -- 2.30.2