On 6 October 2015 at 20:32, Toon Moene wrote: > All, > > One of my colleagues on the Fortran Standardization Committee asked me the > following question: > > "People are still not too familiar with the new GCC numbering scheme. My > impression is that 5.2 is just a maintenance update of 5.1. However, they > still want assurance that there are no call interface or module format > changes between 5.1 and 5.2 so that libraries and modules built with 5.1 > (MPI, for example) will still work with 5.2. Is that the case?"
5.1 -> 5.2 is *exactly* what would have been 4.10.0 -> 4.10.1 with the old scheme. i.e. similar in scope to the 4.9.0 -> 4.9.1 update. > I went to https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme for answering that > question, but it is by far not explicit enough to answer it. > > Shouldn't we be documenting the shift in numbering schematics on a far more > obvious location on our web site, and with more complete semantics ? That info seems OK for the Development Plan page, the user-facing info is: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/ https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/ https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/ As can be seen there, "5.2 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 5.1 relative to previous releases of GCC." That's exactly the same wording as was used for the 4.x releases.
