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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in GNAT
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Simon Wright:
>
>> Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> turning *.ad[sb] into *.ada files etc
>>
>> At least once in the past (June 2009) I've had success sending a
>> reproducer in a ZIP file.
>>
>> And if you want to report a GPR-related problem you're going to have to
>> send the GPR!
>>
>> Can you remind me where the instruction to cat all the .ad? files so
>> they can be gnatchop'd comes from?
>
> Some wrote it down about eight years ago:
>
>   <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/#gnat>
>
> It's still a reasonable requirement.  It's really difficult to argue
> about compiler bugs when people only post the parts they think are
> relevant, or upload stuff with their own build system and expect that
> everybody understands that as well as they do.

In terms of the info needed, I can only agree! It was more a question of
the presentation.