Hi,
I recently sent an e-mail to the gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. The
e-mail I sent had an attachment. The e-mail has not showed up on the
mailing list archive [0].
* Are attachments allowed? The policies [1] say that attachments for
large messages are allowed. Are they not allowed for smaller messages?
* I subscribed to the mailing list after sending my e-mail with the
attachment. Are attachments only allowed for subscribers? The spam
blocking section [1] says subscribers will not be subject to any kind of
spam blocking.
* If attachments are not allowed, can someone let me know what is the
best practice for including test cases that are not yet part of the
testing suite? I have a small program written in a folder (outside of
gcc) that I use to test a new transformation I am working on. Should I
just include these test cases as part of the patch?
* I previously had some difficulties with how my e-mail client was
rendering messages I sent to the mailing list [2][3]. Does anyone have
any recommendations on e-mail clients / techniques to ensure that the
way I type messages on my client is the way the messages will be
displayed on the mailing list? (For example, I am currently using
Thunderbird writing text only messages and Thunderbird wraps lines at
~70 characters. I am currently unaware if this message will have lines
with more than 70 characters or if newlines will be inserted by my
client). This makes my patches look like they are not formatted
correctly (and possibly become poorly formatted).
Thanks!
[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2019-11/
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2019-11/msg00091.html
[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-11/msg01497.html
