## 31 Reporting Bugs in gdb

Your bug reports play an essential role in making gdb reliable.

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 gdb work better. Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of gdb.

In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the information that enables us to fix the bug.