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68<h3 class="section">19.1 Have You Found a Bug?</h3>
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71<p>If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some guidelines:
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76If a binary utility gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is
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80If a binary utility produces an error message for valid input, that is a
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