GCC version bikeshedding

[Joern Rennecke]

On 29 July 2014 19:29, Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com> wrote:
> E.g. A GCC release on the 1st April 2015 at 09:00 UTC is made
> 90 days and 9 hours after the start of the year, and should thus carry
> the version number  2015.24760274

P.S.: a patchlevel  release in a subsequent year can be marked by increasing
the first digit after the decimal point beyond nine into the
hexadecimal ream and beyond.
So a patchlevel release of gcc 2015.x .on 1st Juy 2018 12:00 UTC
would have version number 2015.Y9726027 .