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Re: Comments wanted on an idea of changing the binutils version
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:29:22PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
We actually do, it's the comment "remove" that's a bit misleading
here, it's not at that function anymore, it's implemented at an other
place, where -fversion is impolemented. So, we comply I would claim.
/ChJ