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From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Don't delay bug reports
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Date: 23 May 89 17:03:22 GMT
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If you encounter a reproduceable bug in GCC, please report it right
away.  Don't delay the bug report for more than a day with the idea of
fixing it yourself.  I appreciate receiving fixes, but I don't
appreciate being kept in the dark about bugs and being unable to fix
them.  

It may easily happen, if you delay, that a release will go
out in the meanwhile.  In that case, the new release may
still have the bug, because you didn't report it in time.