Typing "gcc --version" outputs clang version instead on mac

c, gcc, macos

Solution

You seem to not actually have gcc on your path. As of recent versions of Xcode, it installs a "gcc" that is instead a link to Clang.

Problem

I am using OS 10.9 on mac machine. I want to know the version of gcc I am using. So I tried `gcc --version` on terminal and it results : ``` $ gcc --version Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode5-DP.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode5-DP.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.1.58) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0 Thread model: posix ``` Here in output, there is no detail related to gcc but clang is there. I am confused whether gcc command executes clang or gcc(gnu).

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