Our VxWorks C compiler (gcc-2.8-something) does not like the "//" comments. Luckily, on VxWorks, we 
only compile a small subset of midas, so there is no point in banning all "//" comments. But I did have to 
convert a couple of them to /* commens */ in odb.c to make it compile. Changes to odb.c commited. K.O.