On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:52:36PM -0700, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Thanks for your quick response. You've confirmed my suspicion that > under Solaris, GNU as will go on assuming that '/' starts a comment > unless supplied the "--divide" option. The reason I wanted to know > this is that when I'd brought up this behavior before in the forums, > people have suggested that this is a "bug" which will go away in > future versions of Binutils.
Actually, I can't confirm that. My statement applied to binutils around the time they integrated the --divide patch. They may have changed their minds since then. It should be easy enough to check in binutil's latest source tree if you're interested. regards john
