1<html lang="en"> 2<head> 3<title>Reporting Bugs - Untitled</title> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> 5<meta name="description" content="Untitled"> 6<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> 7<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> 8<link rel="prev" href="BFD.html#BFD" title="BFD"> 9<link rel="next" href="MRI.html#MRI" title="MRI"> 10<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> 11<!-- 12This file documents the GNU linker LD 13(Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2011.09-69) 14version 2.21.53. 15 16Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 172001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 18 19Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 20under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 21or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 22with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 23Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the 24section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.--> 25<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> 26<style type="text/css"><!-- 27 pre.display { font-family:inherit } 28 pre.format { font-family:inherit } 29 pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } 30 pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } 31 pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } 32 pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } 33 span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } 34 span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } 35 span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } 36--></style> 37<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cs.css"> 38</head> 39<body> 40<div class="node"> 41<a name="Reporting-Bugs"></a> 42<p> 43Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="MRI.html#MRI">MRI</a>, 44Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="BFD.html#BFD">BFD</a>, 45Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> 46<hr> 47</div> 48 49<h2 class="chapter">6 Reporting Bugs</h2> 50 51<p><a name="index-bugs-in-_0040command_007bld_007d-701"></a><a name="index-reporting-bugs-in-_0040command_007bld_007d-702"></a> 52Your bug reports play an essential role in making <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> reliable. 53 54 <p>Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem, or 55it may not. But in any case the principal function of a bug report is 56to help the entire community by making the next version of <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> 57work better. Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of 58<samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp>. 59 60 <p>In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the 61information that enables us to fix the bug. 62 63<ul class="menu"> 64<li><a accesskey="1" href="Bug-Criteria.html#Bug-Criteria">Bug Criteria</a>: Have you found a bug? 65<li><a accesskey="2" href="Bug-Reporting.html#Bug-Reporting">Bug Reporting</a>: How to report bugs 66</ul> 67 68 </body></html> 69 70