> > You may dream all you like, but "portable" means "works on all the > systems we support". We cannot control the systems. We can control > our sources. Portability precludes //-style comments in binutils.
Well - personally I thought you had gcc to support all your platforms, which for ages has supported either style of comment... there's only a few relics I've run across which were barely even functional as compilers that didn't support it :)
