Comments

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There are two ways of rendering comments to as. 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 | on the 680x0 family of processors.

To be compatible with past assemblers, lines that begin with # have a special interpretation. Following the # should be an absolute expression (see Expressions): the logical line number of the next line. Then a string (see 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 as.