unintended usage of gcc-2.96

[Mike Stump]

> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:10:45 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> To: William Bader <william@nscs.fast.net>
> cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org

> 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?

Just autoconf and friends.  -v does give more complete information.