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From: "marc.khouzam at ericsson dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
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Subject: [Bug gdb/16360] New: Provide a --shortversion flag
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:19:00 -0000
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16360

            Bug ID: 16360
           Summary: Provide a --shortversion flag
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdb
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: marc.khouzam at ericsson dot com

Eclipse uses the GDB version to figure out what features are supported by GDB.

I keep running into parsing problems because the version printout is not
standard between different GDB builds.

I would be safer to have a --shortversion flag that would simply provide the
number part of the version.

For example

> gdb --shortversion
7.6.1

> gdb --shortversion
7.6.50.20131126-cvs

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