Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> writes: > I believe lThese option files were adapted from Windows, and they are > primarily for use on Windows, which has much stricter limits on command > line length than most Unix systems. We should implement whatever > Windows implements.
IIRC they were adapted from DJGPP, which got them from Borland C. Neither of these allowed comments, because who knows what a "comment" is for every single program out there? Historically, @files were generated by the Makefile just before they were used. There was never a need to add documentation inside them.
