rms@AI.MIT.EDU (10/29/89)
The purpose of bug-gcc is to transfer bug reports to the people who maintain GCC. In order to be useful for this purpose, a bug report must contain a COMPLETE test case. It is usually impossible to construct a usable test case from a few "relevant lines", and the whole rest of the function is probably relevant anyway. People who aren't GCC maintainers are welcome to read the list. But they shouldn't forget that the list doesn't exist for their sake. If they don't receiving the contents of the list, then they should get off it. They should not ask the users to send incomplete bug reports for their sake. Please, if you have a GCC bug to report, send a complete self-contained test case that can be run straight off to reproduce the bug. If you can easily shorten the test case without making the bug go away, then go ahead; but otherwise, send the whole thing.