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Chapter 17. Reporting Bugs 63

• A patch for the bug.

A patch for the bug does help us if it is a good one. But do not omit the necessary information, such

as the test case, on the assumption that a patch is all we need. We might see problems with your

patch and decide to ﬁx the problem another way, or we might not understand it at all.

Sometimes with programs as complicated as the binary utilities it is very hard to construct an

example that will make the program follow a certain path through the code. If you do not send us

the example, we will not be able to construct one, so we will not be able to verify that the bug is

ﬁxed.

And if we cannot understand what bug you are trying to ﬁx, or why your patch should be an

improvement, we will not install it. A test case will help us to understand.

• A guess about what the bug is or what it depends on.

Such guesses are usually wrong. Even we cannot guess right about such things without ﬁrst using

the debugger to ﬁnd the facts.

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