unintended usage of gcc-2.96

[Geoff Keating]

Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> 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?

According to the GNU coding standards, the --version output should
look something like

GCC 2.97 20001008 (experimental)
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GCC comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  You may
redistribute copies of GCC under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>