Just having pointed someone to our bug reporting instructions, I had a look myself and noticed that they are a little unwieldy . This is a first step of shortening the text a little.
Help and contributions very welcome! Gerald Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.119 diff -u -r1.119 index.html --- index.html 19 Mar 2017 07:50:55 -0000 1.119 +++ index.html 25 Nov 2017 19:00:10 -0000 @@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ <h1><a name="report">Reporting Bugs</a></h1> -<p>The main purpose of a bug report is to enable us to fix the bug. The -most important prerequisite for this is that the report must be complete -and self-contained.</p> +<p>A good bug report, which is complete and self-contained, enables us +to fix the bug.</p> <p>Before you report a bug, please check the <a href="#known">list of well-known bugs</a> and, <strong>if possible, @@ -56,13 +55,12 @@ <h2>Summarized bug reporting instructions</h2> -<p>After this summary, you'll find detailed bug reporting -instructions, that explain how to obtain some of the information -requested in this summary.</p> +<p>After this summary, you'll find detailed instructions that explain +how to obtain some of the information requested in this summary.</p> <h3><a name="need">What we need</a></h3> -<p>Please include in your bug report all of the following items, the first +<p>Please include all of the following items, the first three of which can be obtained from the output of <code>gcc -v</code>:</p> <ul>
