gcc -v

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> writes:

| > 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).

Yes, I know that but gcc -v gives much better.  
>From what I understand from the the code in gcc.c, "gcc -v" -- with no
additional arguments" is intended to give enhanced "gcc --version".

Anyway, after the freeze is removed I'll try to address that
issue. It is not critical.

-- Gaby
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