John Farmer wrote: > When a new GCC version is released (such as V4.4.0.) does it follow that the > C compiler, Java compiler etc. are also at this version? Yes. > If not what is the > command line option to display just the version of the C compiler? For my > release the compiler is cc1.exe (and I don't have a gcc.exe). You have an incorrectly installed gcc, then. > The reason I ask is that the version of the assembler or linker can easily > be determined as follows. > > as --version > ld --version > > and is V2.19.1 in both cases. I then wondered if the C compiler (and all > other compilers supported) has a version of V2.19.1 or V4.4.0 or something > else. gcc --version should do it. If you only have cc1 then something is very wrong with your installation. Andrew.