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Re: gcc -v
- To: gdr at codesourcery dot com (Gabriel Dos Reis)
- Subject: Re: gcc -v
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:37:29 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Is there any technical reason why "gcc -v" should output to stderr and
> not to "stdout"? I'm in the process of adding (finally!) the new style
> DejaGnu framework for V3 and I'm finding that "feature" to be
> annoying as something like (the following which ran successfuly is
> reported as a failure)
>
> set output [remote_exec host $libstdcxx_options(CXX) -v]
>
> AFAICT, we should only use stderr for diagnostics, not for normal
> behaviour.
gcc --version prints on stdout (but it prints only the version number).