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  18 <h3 class="section">Have you found a bug?</h3>
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  20    <p>If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some guidelines:
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  22      <ul>
  23 <li>If the debugger gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is a
  24 GDB bug.  Reliable debuggers never crash.
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  26      <li>If GDB produces an error message for valid input, that is a
  27 bug.  (Note that if you're cross debugging, the problem may also be
  28 somewhere in the connection to the target.)
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  30      <li>If GDB does not produce an error message for invalid input,
  31 that is a bug.  However, you should note that your idea of
  32 "invalid input" might be our idea of "an extension" or "support
  33 for traditional practice".
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  35      <li>If you are an experienced user of debugging tools, your suggestions
  36 for improvement of GDB are welcome in any case.
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