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re: unintended usage of gcc-2.96
- To: William Bader <william at nscs dot fast dot net>
- Subject: re: unintended usage of gcc-2.96
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:10:45 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, William Bader wrote:
> Would it help to make the text reported by "gcc --version" say something
> like "prerelease" or "development"?
I would prefer `gcc --version` to print
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
or
gcc version 2.97 20001008 (experimental)
instead of the current output
2.95.2
or
2.97
But that's just me. Are there any reasons *not* to make such a change?
Gerald
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