gcc -v

Joe Buck jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com
Wed Jan 17 23:38:00 GMT 2001


> Is there any technical reason why "gcc -v" should output to stderr and
> not to "stdout"?  I'm in the process of adding (finally!) the new style
> DejaGnu framework for V3 and I'm finding that "feature" to be
> annoying as something like (the following which ran successfuly is
> reported as a failure)
> 
> 	set output [remote_exec host $libstdcxx_options(CXX) -v]
> 
> AFAICT, we should only use stderr for diagnostics, not for normal
> behaviour. 

gcc --version prints on stdout (but it prints only the version number).



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