-V, can we remove it?

[Mike Stump]

On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Neil Booth wrote:
> Mike Stump wrote:-
>> Can we remove -V?
> I thought Geoff put in some effort to keep it going.

I just audited the code, and yes, it is way more bullet proof than it 
used to me, though, I still has some reservations about it.

For example, if you need to read the info files of an older gcc to 
figure out what the command line flags are, it isn't clear to me a user 
could get the right version.  Also, if a user wanted to read an older 
manual page, they would be out of luck.

Additionally, we know that the C++ abi aren't always preserved, and 
yet, it isn't clear to me that a user could code in C++ with an older 
compiler and find the right libraries to link against.

And then there is Java...  Hopeless.

Also, I don't think gcov can be used on older compilers...  Last time I 
tried, it died a horrible death.

And to top if off, I don't think the translations that one used to get 
with older compilers would work as well after installing a new compiler.

So, yes, -V works, if you aren't too demanding and don't need it to 
work.