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Re: Comments wanted on an idea of changing the binutils version
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk (Joseph S. Myers)
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck),c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com (Christian Jönsson),gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (Gcc)
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:29:22 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Comments wanted on an idea of changing the binutils version
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > So, it looks like it is GCC that is out of step. Should we change the
> > output of "gcc --version"?
>
> This was already fixed by
>
> 2002-01-08 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
>
> * gcc.c (option_map): Remove --version.
> (process_command): Handle -fversion following the GNU Coding
> Standards. Partially addresses PR other/704.
Hmm. Haven't tried this out since I can't bootstrap the 3.1 branch
on Solaris at the moment, but the GNU Coding standards specify the
behavior of --version, not of -fversion. If we don't support --version
we do not comply.