<html lang="en"> <head> <title>AVR-Chars - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="AVR-Syntax.html#AVR-Syntax" title="AVR Syntax"> <link rel="next" href="AVR_002dRegs.html#AVR_002dRegs" title="AVR-Regs"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="AVR-Chars"></a> <a name="AVR_002dChars"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="AVR_002dRegs.html#AVR_002dRegs">AVR-Regs</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="AVR-Syntax.html#AVR-Syntax">AVR Syntax</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">9.5.2.1 Special Characters</h5> <p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-AVR-792"></a><a name="index-AVR-line-comment-character-793"></a> The presence of a ‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’ anywhere on a line indicates the start of a comment that extends to the end of that line. <p>If a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ appears as the first character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line can also be a logical line number directive (see <a href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>) or a preprocessor control command (see <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>). <p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-AVR-794"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-AVR-795"></a><a name="index-AVR-line-separator-796"></a> The ‘<samp><span class="samp">$</span></samp>’ character can be used instead of a newline to separate statements. </body></html>