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| <h3 class="section">31.1 Have You Found a Bug?</h3> |
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| <p>If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some guidelines: |
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| If the debugger gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is a |
| <small>GDB</small> bug. Reliable debuggers never crash. |
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| If <small>GDB</small> produces an error message for valid input, that is a |
| bug. (Note that if you’re cross debugging, the problem may also be |
| somewhere in the connection to the target.) |
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| If <small>GDB</small> does not produce an error message for invalid input, |
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