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<h3 class="section">3.3 Comments</h3>
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<p><a name="index-comments-123"></a>There are two ways of rendering comments to <span class="command">as</span>.  In both
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cases the comment is equivalent to one space.
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   <p>Anything from <span class="samp">/*</span> through the next <span class="samp">*/</span> is a comment. 
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This means you may not nest these comments.
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<pre class="smallexample">     /*
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       The only way to include a newline ('\n') in a comment
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       is to use this sort of comment.
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     */
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     /* This sort of comment does not nest. */
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   <p><a name="index-line-comment-character-124"></a>Anything from the <dfn>line comment</dfn> character to the next newline
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is considered a comment and is ignored.  The line comment character is
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<span class="samp">;</span> on the ARC;
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<span class="samp">@</span> on the ARM;
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<span class="samp">;</span> for the H8/300 family;
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<span class="samp">;</span> for the HPPA;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the i386 and x86-64;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the i960;
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<span class="samp">;</span> for the PDP-11;
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<span class="samp">;</span> for picoJava;
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<span class="samp">#</span> for Motorola PowerPC;
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<span class="samp">!</span> for the Renesas / SuperH SH;
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<span class="samp">!</span> on the SPARC;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the ip2k;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the m32c;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the m32r;
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<span class="samp">|</span> on the 680x0;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the 68HC11 and 68HC12;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the Vax;
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<span class="samp">;</span> for the Z80;
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<span class="samp">!</span> for the Z8000;
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<span class="samp">#</span> on the V850;
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<span class="samp">#</span> for Xtensa systems;
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see <a href="Machine-Dependencies.html#Machine-Dependencies">Machine Dependencies</a>.  
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   <p>On some machines there are two different line comment characters.  One
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character only begins a comment if it is the first non-whitespace character on
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a line, while the other always begins a comment.
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   <p>The V850 assembler also supports a double dash as starting a comment that
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extends to the end of the line.
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   <p><span class="samp">--</span>;
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   <p><a name="index-_0023-125"></a><a name="index-lines-starting-with-_0040code_007b_0023_007d-126"></a><a name="index-logical-line-numbers-127"></a>To be compatible with past assemblers, lines that begin with <span class="samp">#</span> have a
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special interpretation.  Following the <span class="samp">#</span> should be an absolute
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expression (see <a href="Expressions.html#Expressions">Expressions</a>): the logical line number of the <em>next</em>
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line.  Then a string (see <a href="Strings.html#Strings">Strings</a>) is allowed: if present it is a
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new logical file name.  The rest of the line, if any, should be whitespace.
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   <p>If the first non-whitespace characters on the line are not numeric,
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the line is ignored.  (Just like a comment.)
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<pre class="smallexample">                               # This is an ordinary comment.
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     # 42-6 "new_file_name"    # New logical file name
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                               # This is logical line # 36.
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   <p>This feature is deprecated, and may disappear from future versions
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of <span class="command">as</span>.
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