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* gcc.texi (Bug Reporting): 40Kb is a soft limit, larger
	compressed reports are ok and preferred over URLs

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Sun Dec 6 07:49:29 1998 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
* 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 <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
* invoke.texi (Warning Options): Soften the tone of -pedantic

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@ -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: