I believe the intent is that version numbers are able to be compared numerically.
In any case, they are numbers per https://dwarfstd.org/issues/210419.1.html - "A DW_AT_language_version attribute may be specified whose constant value is an integer code indicating the version of the source language." On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM David Anderson via Dwarf-discuss < dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote: > > > VVMMPP Major version number (VV) × 10,000 + minor version number (MM) × > 100 + patch number (PP) (e.g., 30607 for version 3.6.7) > > https://dwarfstd.org/languages.html > > So I'm puzzled. > > As normally represented 3.101.198 is easily understood, > but as shown in the explanation line above ... > what is supposed to be done? Why not just 3.6.7 instead of 030607 ? > > DavidAnderson > > -- > Dwarf-discuss mailing list > Dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org > https://lists.dwarfstd.org/mailman/listinfo/dwarf-discuss >
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