Re: Feature request: decoding gnatsweb attachments

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>]

On Nov  4, 2000, ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> wrote:

> I never received anything like this.  Where does it come from?

A bug tracking system called Gnats.  It's Free Software (of course),
and widely used in projects such as GCC, glibc, GDB, GCJ, autoconf,
automake, libtool, and the list goes on :-)

> Is the attachment always at the end of the message?

I've never seen anything after it.

> Or Is there something marking the end of the attachment?

A blank line after the base64 encoded stream looks like a good bet.

I may send you a complete message, if you'd like to look into it.

For an example of Gnatsweb in action, see
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gcc&user=guest&password=guest&cmd=login

The bug report containing the attachment I posted is bug #734.

Whenever someone posts a GCC bug report, it's forwarded to gcc-prs and
gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, and attachments are encoded as in the snippet I
posted.  The bug report in question, that I chose just because its
attachment was very small, is archived at
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2000-q4/msg00213.html

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