Reporting Bugs
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   Your bug reports play an essential role in making GNU CC reliable.

   When you encounter a problem, the first thing to do is to see if it
is already known.  See 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
See Service.)  In any case, the principal function of a bug report
is to help the entire community by making the next version of GNU CC
work better.  Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of
GNU CC.

   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.

   In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the
information that makes for fixing the bug.

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Criteria: Bug Criteria

Have you really found a bug?

Where: Bug Lists

Where to send your bug report.

Reporting: Bug Reporting

How to report a bug effectively.

Patches: Sending Patches

How to send a patch for GNU CC.

Known: Trouble

Known problems.

Help: Service

Where to ask for help.