Broken link and defunct search
Janis Johnson
janis187@us.ibm.com
Tue Aug 17 13:58:00 GMT 2004
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
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