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ROSE_NUMERIC_VERSION

Numeric form of ROSE version.

Synopsis

Declared in <rose_paths.h>

extern
unsigned long const ROSE_NUMERIC_VERSION;

Description

This is the numeric form of the ROSE version number. It's formed by taking the ROSE version string from the ROSE_VERSION file at the top of the source tree (e.g., "0.9.6.399‐rc1", replacing all non‐numeric characters with '.', ("0.9.6.399...1"), deleting dots that are repeated ("0.9.6.399.1"), discarding all but the first three numeric values ("0.9.6"), forming an integer using three digits per version part ("000009006"), and removing leading zeros ("9006").

If the first three numbers of a ROSE version are called "major", "minor", and "patch" then these three values can be obtained from the ROSE_NUMERIC_VERSION with this code:

unsigned long patch_number = ROSE_NUMERIC_VERSION % 1000ul;
unsigned long minor_number = ROSE_NUMERIC_VERSION / 1000ul % 1000ul;
unsigned long major_number = ROSE_NUMERIC_VERSION / 1000000ul;

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