when (not) use bugzilla for GCC?

[Richard Guenther]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net> writes:
>
>> Are you suggesting me to upload to bugzilla the nearly 3000
>> preprocessed forms of the files? I could do that, but the *.i files
>> totalize more than one gigabyte. A bzip2 compressed tar archive of
>> them is almost 80Mbytes.
>
> That is a difficulty, but without a self-contained test case it's
> pretty hard to fix the bug.  You can try reporting the bug with a URL
> for where to download the sources.  Since LTO is fairly new a
> maintainer may be willing to download them and try it.  Otherwise, go
> ahead and upload that 80M tar ball.  gcc.gnu.org will cope.

Please don't.  Bi-sect the list of object files by adding -r -nostdlib
to the link line.  This should result in a two or three file testcase.
Either attach those or reduce them with delta.

Richard.