On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Richard Biener
<richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 12, 2015 5:58:07 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Michael Matz <m...@suse.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>>> >> So we have
>>>> >>
>>>> >> experimental
>>>> >> release
>>>> >> post-release
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Why not just rename prerelease to post-release? That is a
>>one-line
>>>> >> change.
>>>> >
>>>> > Why print anything at all?  5.1.1 is after 5.1.0 in obvious ways.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> How can you tell GCC 5.1.1 on May 1, 2015 from GCC 5.1.1
>>>> on May 12, 2015?
>>>
>>> Via the svn revision.  But as the subject says, this patch is not so
>>much
>>
>>So? Doesn't post-release display the svn revision.for gcc -v, which
>>gcc -v doesn't display today? Something like this
>>
>>diff --git a/gcc/DEV-PHASE b/gcc/DEV-PHASE
>>index e69de29..ee176f8 100644
>>--- a/gcc/DEV-PHASE
>>+++ b/gcc/DEV-PHASE
>>@@ -0,0 +1 @@
>>+post-release
>
> Printing post-release doesn't add any information.  I believe Jakub fixed the 
> missing svn revision printing already.
>

What is the real benefit of your patch?


-- 
H.J.

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