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<h2 class="chapter">30 Reporting Bugs in <span class="sc">gdb</span></h2>
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Your bug reports play an essential role in making <span class="sc">gdb</span> reliable.
<p>Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem, or it
may not. But in any case the principal function of a bug report is to help
the entire community by making the next version of <span class="sc">gdb</span> work better. Bug
reports are your contribution to the maintenance of <span class="sc">gdb</span>.
<p>In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the
information that enables us to fix the bug.
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