Re: Broken link and defunct search

[Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:15:51AM +0200, Nikolay Mihaylov wrote:
> Hello
> 
> My sincere apologies if this is not the right place to report the 
> problem but (and I quote from http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html):
> 
> Please send comments on these web pages and the development of GCC to 
> our developer mailing list at gcc@gnu.org <mailto:gcc@gnu.org> or 
> gcc@gcc.gnu.org <mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org>.
> 
> At the bottom of the page that I quote from there's a reference to 
> "Common Misunderstandings with GNU C++" 
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Misunderstandings.html) but 
> there's no page at this URL. I tried to locate the page by searching for 
> "Common Misunderstandings" at gnu.org but it finds no matches. It knows 
> nothing about GNU or Richard Stallman (or anything else) either which is 
> quite suspicious. Actually, the search at gcc.gnu.org works fine, albeit 
> a bit slow, and gave me 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Misunderstandings.html, 
> which I guess is the correct link.

Nikolay, thanks for reporting this.

Gerald, the page in question is for node "C++ Misunderstandings".
makeinfo 4.7 replaces '+' in a file name with '_002b', and makeinfo
4.6 replaced it with '-'.  I don't know if the obvious fix of
changing the link in bugs.html is really the correct thing to do.

Janis