Add revision number to gcc version?

[David Daney]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:10PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> 
>>H. J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:05:47PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:52:49PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:14 AM, H. J. Lu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Can we change it to something like
>>>>>>
>>>>>>gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20051113 (revision 106863) (experimental)
>>>>>
>>>>>Doesn't work, unless you also have the branch name.  Further, the  
>>>>>substitutions that svn can do, doesn't allow for the above, and they  
>>>>>don't want to `fix' svn to do it (see the FAQ).  (I think I'd like it  
>>>>>too.)
>>>>
>>>I am enclosing 2 patches:
>>>
>>>1. contrib/gcc_update creates gcc/REVISION with branch name and
>>>revision number.
>>>2. If gcc/REVISION exists, it will be used in gcc/version.c.
>>>
>>>With those 2 patches, I got
>>>
>>>[hjl@gnu-13 gcc]$ ./xgcc --version
>>>xgcc (GCC) 4.1.0 (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596) 20051215 (prerelease)
>>
>>I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there were 
>>any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either 'clean' or 
>>'modified' to the information.
>>
>>So you would get (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 modified) or 
>>(gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 clean)
>>
> 
> 
> Like this?
> 

It is plausible that it does what I had in mind.  I have not tested it 
though.

I say test it and post it to gcc-patches@

David Daney.