At Friday 2006-04-28 15:17 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> If you want people to use the information you provide rationally, do
> not colour that information with irrational attempts at humour to
> provide misinformation that causes doubt.
>
> We need to trust the output of gcc -v.
No, this is completely wrong and absolutely not what you want to do. The
output of "gcc -v" is a human-readable summary of various internal information
which can be obtained by more reliable means for programmatic use.
So you admit that gcc -v's output is deliberately unreliable and will
lie to the human reader, then.
L.
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