[cfe-dev] clang --version question.

[Jean-Daniel Dupas]

Hello,

Is there a reason why clang outputs its version in stderr instead of  
stdout when passing the --version flag ?
It prevents usage of this kind of script (used to detect type of  
parser in some projects):

if $cc --version 2>/dev/null | grep -q clang; then …

Note that this can be easily workaround by redirecting stderr in  
stdout instead of /dev/null, but I wonder if it's not simpler to  
change the driver to use stdout instead (see attached patch).

Regards
Jean-Daniel

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