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<h2 class="chapter">6 Reporting Bugs</h2>
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Your bug reports play an essential role in making <span class="command">ld</span> reliable.
<p>Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem, or
it may not. But in any case the principal function of a bug report is
to help the entire community by making the next version of <span class="command">ld</span>
work better. Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of
<span class="command">ld</span>.
<p>In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the
information that enables us to fix the bug.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Bug-Criteria.html#Bug-Criteria">Bug Criteria</a>: Have you found a bug?
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Bug-Reporting.html#Bug-Reporting">Bug Reporting</a>: How to report bugs
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