gawk: Bug address

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1 B.4.1 Submitting Bug Reports
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1 Before reporting a bug, make sure you have really found a genuine bug.
1 First, verify that you have the latest version of 'gawk'.  Many bugs
1 (usually subtle ones) are fixed at each release, and if yours is out of
1 date, the problem may already have been solved.
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1    Second, please see if setting the environment variable 'LC_ALL' to
1 'LC_ALL=C' causes things to behave as you expect.  If so, it's a locale
1 issue, and may or may not really be a bug.
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1    Third, carefully reread the documentation and see if it says you can
1 do what you're trying to do.  If it's not clear whether you should be
1 able to do something or not, report that too; it's a bug in the
1 documentation!
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1    Finally, before reporting a bug or trying to fix it yourself, try to
1 isolate it to the smallest possible 'awk' program and input data file
1 that reproduce the problem.  Then send us the program and data file,
1 some idea of what kind of Unix system you're using, the compiler you
1 used to compile 'gawk', and the exact results 'gawk' gave you.  Also say
1 what you expected to occur; this helps us decide whether the problem is
1 really in the documentation.
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1    Make sure to include the version number of 'gawk' you are using.  You
1 can get this information with the command 'gawk --version'.
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1    Once you have a precise problem description, send email to
1 <bug-gawk@gnu.org>.
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1    The 'gawk' maintainers subscribe to this address, and thus they will
1 receive your bug report.  Although you can send mail to the maintainers
1 directly, the bug reporting address is preferred because the email list
1 is archived at the GNU Project.  _All email must be in English.  This is
1 the only language understood in common by all the maintainers._  In
1 addition, please be sure to send all mail in _plain text_, not (or not
1 exclusively) in HTML.
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1      NOTE: Many distributions of GNU/Linux and the various BSD-based
1      operating systems have their own bug reporting systems.  If you
1      report a bug using your distribution's bug reporting system, you
1      should also send a copy to <bug-gawk@gnu.org>.
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1      This is for two reasons.  First, although some distributions
1      forward bug reports "upstream" to the GNU mailing list, many don't,
1      so there is a good chance that the 'gawk' maintainers won't even
1      see the bug report!  Second, mail to the GNU list is archived, and
1      having everything at the GNU Project keeps things self-contained
1      and not dependent on other organizations.
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1    Non-bug suggestions are always welcome as well.  If you have
1 questions about things that are unclear in the documentation or are just
1 obscure features, ask on the bug list; we will try to help you out if we
1 can.
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