[PATCH v2 2/3] gas: add a means to programmatically determine the assembler version

[Michael Matz]

Hello,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, Jan Beulich wrote:

> Are we happy with at most two decimal digits in minor and sub-minor 
> version numbers, as BFD_VERSION has it?

I think we should be.  Once the minor version digits run out in in 2052 
(given two releases per year), maybe it's indeed time for bumping the 
major version to 3 :-)  (And hey, the major version has an unlimited 
number of digits; not in a fixed-width representation of course, but 
generally)

> The version2 test would certainly be nice to run for non-ELF as well,
> yet I can't seem to be able to think of a way to sensibly arrange for
> that (checking for the absence of any _other_ symbols).

If these were dg tests, one could use dg-bogus and dg-prune to do stuff, 
but as dump tests I don't see one either.


Ciao,
Michael.