unintended usage of gcc-2.96

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, William Bader wrote:
> Would it help to make the text reported by "gcc --version" say something
> like "prerelease" or "development"?

I would prefer `gcc --version` to print
  gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
or
  gcc version 2.97 20001008 (experimental)
instead of the current output
  2.95.2
or
  2.97

But that's just me. Are there any reasons *not* to make such a change?

Gerald
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