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Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Bug-Reporting.html#Bug-Reporting">Bug Reporting</a>,
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<h3 class="section">31.1 Have You Found a Bug?</h3>
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<p><a name="index-bug-criteria-3170"></a>
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If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some guidelines:
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<a name="index-crash-of-debugger-3173"></a>
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<ul><li>If the debugger gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is a
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<span class="sc">gdb</span> bug. Reliable debuggers never crash.
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<p><a name="index-error-on-valid-input-3174"></a><li>If <span class="sc">gdb</span> produces an error message for valid input, that is a
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bug. (Note that if you're cross debugging, the problem may also be
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somewhere in the connection to the target.)
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<p><a name="index-invalid-input-3175"></a><li>If <span class="sc">gdb</span> does not produce an error message for invalid input,
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that is a bug. However, you should note that your idea of
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“invalid input” might be our idea of “an extension” or “support
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for traditional practice”.
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<li>If you are an experienced user of debugging tools, your suggestions
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for improvement of <span class="sc">gdb</span> are welcome in any case.
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