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Re: Further bug reporting instructions
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: Further bug reporting instructions
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at pincoya dot inf dot utfsm dot cl>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:33:36 -0400
- cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> said:
> On 16 Mar 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Ok to install?
> Yes, thank you.
While you are on this, it would be nice to explain a little why
preprocessed sources, something along the lines:
We need preprocessed sources since different versions of the operating
system have different header files, which when #included and passed through
the preprocessor give different final source code for the compiler proper
to work with, thus possibly hiding the bug. If you include preprocessed
sources, volunteers with different versions of the operating system, or
completely different machines altogether, can check out your report.
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