Comments wanted on an idea of changing the binutils version

[Christian Jönsson]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:29:22PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
> > 
> > > So, it looks like it is GCC that is out of step.  Should we change the
> > > output of "gcc --version"?
> > 
> > This was already fixed by
> > 
> > 2002-01-08  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
> > 
> >         * gcc.c (option_map): Remove --version.
> >         (process_command): Handle -fversion following the GNU Coding
> >         Standards.  Partially addresses PR other/704.
> 
> Hmm.  Haven't tried this out since I can't bootstrap the 3.1 branch
> on Solaris at the moment, but the GNU Coding standards specify the
> behavior of --version, not of -fversion.  If we don't support --version
> we do not comply.
> 

We actually do, it's the comment "remove" that's a bit misleading
here, it's not at that function anymore, it's implemented at an other
place, where -fversion is impolemented. So, we comply I would claim.

/ChJ