There are two ways of rendering comments to . In both
cases the comment is equivalent to one space.
Anything from `/*' through the next `*/' is a comment. This means you may not nest these comments.
/* The only way to include a newline ('\n') in a comment is to use this sort of comment. */ /* This sort of comment does not nest. */
Anything from the line comment character to the next newline is considered a comment and is ignored. The line comment character is see @xref{Machine Dependencies}.
To be compatible with past assemblers, lines that begin with `#' have a special interpretation. Following the `#' should be an absolute expression (see section Expressions): the logical line number of the next line. Then a string (see section Strings) is allowed: if present it is a new logical file name. The rest of the line, if any, should be whitespace.
If the first non-whitespace characters on the line are not numeric, the line is ignored. (Just like a comment.)
# This is an ordinary comment. # 42-6 "new_file_name" # New logical file name # This is logical line # 36.
This feature is deprecated, and may disappear from future versions
of .
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