[PATCH] gcov endianness

Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Thu Jul 10 10:32:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Nathan Sidwell wrote:

> That version number is a 4 character code that goes in the coverage files.

But why should it go in --version output at all, rather than just being an
internal file format version number?  This code seems in much the same
category as version numbers of libraries used by the program, which the
GNU Coding Standards specifically exclude in the normal case from
--version output.

> [Previously gcov had a completely disconnected version string!]

It had such a version number, but I replaced that by the GCC version
string (revision 1.39).  gcov then acquired its own version number again
in revision 1.47.4.1, the commentary on which
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-09/msg00499.html> was silent about
why this version number was being added to --version output.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk



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