[PATCH] D64062: Remove both -dumpversion and __VERSION__

[Reid Kleckner via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

rnk added a comment.

In D64062#1581662 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D64062#1581662>, @sylvestre.ledru wrote:

> In D64062#1581290 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D64062#1581290>, @rnk wrote:
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> > Perhaps we should just remove `__VERSION__` and keep `-dumpversion`.
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> As you wish. clang --version seems an alternative and dumpversion never //worked// for clang. so, I don't expect software to use it for clang.


That's true, but users seem to want some programmatic way to extract the compiler version number without having to resort to sed & co, and we don't provide that right now. `-dumpversion` can easily be the name for that feature.


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