unintended usage of gcc-2.96

Mike Stump mrs@windriver.com
Thu Oct 5 18:14:00 GMT 2000


> From: William Bader <william@nscs.fast.net>
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, william@nscs.fast.net
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:40:59 EDT

> Would it help to make the text reported by "gcc --version" say
> something like "prerelease" or "development"?

Nope.  You see, when a company makes a release of gcc, then the words
prerelease don't apply, so they would have to take them out.  Same
with development or experimental.


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