Version Number

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Miguel M. wrote:
> I just noticed that Im running GCC 3.2.2. I wanted to get 3.3.1. But
> then I remembered that odd numbers related to a testing version to the
> application (like the Linux kernel). Does this rule apply to GCC?

No, it does not.

3.2.x and 3.3.x both are release branches, where the .x releases are
maintainance releases (which should be strictly better with increasing
.x and have extremely little risk for regressions).

The versions numbers of snapshots look as follows
  version 3.4 20030816 (experimental)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
or
  version 3.3 20030816 (prerelease)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^

Hope this helps,
Gerald
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