GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

2015q4 is 5.0 or 5.2?

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which version ID is correct for 2015q4 version?
Documents talk about 5.0, but compiler version in package name is 5.2. Version printed by GCC itself is

arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe (GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors) 5.2.1 20151202 (release) [ARM/embedded-5-branch revision 231848]
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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Thomas Preud'homme (thomas-preudhomme) said : 		#1

Hi J. Dobry,

The 2015Q4 release is based on a very recent snapshot of the FSF gcc-5-branch and so is indeed 5.2 based. The versioning for GCC changed with GCC 5 (from major.minor.patch to major.patch among other things) which is why a few places might use 5.0 instead of 5.2.

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