Summary:
It has been introduced in 2011 for gcc compat:
https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/commit/
95a907fc0f2f717dca38a379c1d2353bfea06d4f
it is probably time to remove it to remove the confusion.
reported: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38836
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/llvm-defaults/+bug/
1810860
Reviewers: ddunbar, rnk
Reviewed By: rnk
Subscribers: jdoerfert, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56803
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@356931
91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-
96231b3b80d8
if (C.getArgs().hasArg(options::OPT_dumpversion)) {
// Since -dumpversion is only implemented for pedantic GCC compatibility, we
// return an answer which matches our definition of __VERSION__.
- //
- // If we want to return a more correct answer some day, then we should
- // introduce a non-pedantically GCC compatible mode to Clang in which we
- // provide sensible definitions for -dumpversion, __VERSION__, etc.
- llvm::outs() << "4.2.1\n";
+ llvm::outs() << CLANG_VERSION_STRING << "\n";
return false;
}
// HELP-HIDDEN: driver-mode
// RUN: %clang -dumpversion | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=DUMPVERSION
-// DUMPVERSION: 4.2.1
+// DUMPVERSION: {{[0-9]+\.[0-9.]+}}
// RUN: %clang -print-search-dirs | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=PRINT-SEARCH-DIRS
// PRINT-SEARCH-DIRS: programs: ={{.*}}