Re: Add revision number to gcc version?

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:07:54PM +0100, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> > 1. contrib/gcc_update creates gcc/REVISION with branch name and
> > revision number.
> > 2. If gcc/REVISION exists, it will be used in gcc/version.c.
> > 
> > With those 2 patches, I got
> > 
> > [hjl@gnu-13 gcc]$ ./xgcc --version
> > xgcc (GCC) 4.1.0 (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596) 20051215 (prerelease)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > xgcc (GCC) 4.2.0 (trunk revision 108596) 20051215 (experimental)
> 
> IMHO we should change the current naming system as little as possible
> for those who run scripts to extract the information from the compiler
> automatically. (Maybe I'm the only one, but I do.)
> 
> Therefore I'd like to suggest to add the new stuff at the end and
> with brackets instead of parentheses to make that information easily
> extractable as well.
> 
> xgcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20051215 (prerelease) [gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596]
> xgcc (GCC) 4.2.0 20051215 (experimental) [trunk revision 108596]
> 
> Somebody on this thread also suggested to skip the date and only use
> the revision number. I don't think that this is a good idea, because
> 
> 1.) there are scripts out there that rely on the date
>     (OK, maybe I'm the only one)
> 2.) if we ever change the revision control system again,
>     these numbers are probably obsolete
> 3.) the date carries a lot of information for humans (oh, this snapshot
>     is already two month old, I should get a new one) without having
>     to consult a database (for those who only download snapshots).
>     And this info is available offline, too.
> 

Here are the new patches. I got

[hjl@gnu gcc-4.1]$ ./build-i686-linux/gcc/stage1/xgcc --version
xgcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20051216 (prerelease) [gcc-4_1-branch revision 108649 clean]
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.



H.J.

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