<html lang="en"> <head> <title>LM32-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="LM32-Syntax.html#LM32-Syntax" title="LM32 Syntax"> <link rel="prev" href="LM32_002dModifiers.html#LM32_002dModifiers" title="LM32-Modifiers"> <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="LM32-Chars"></a> <a name="LM32_002dChars"></a> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="LM32_002dModifiers.html#LM32_002dModifiers">LM32-Modifiers</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="LM32-Syntax.html#LM32-Syntax">LM32 Syntax</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">9.20.2.3 Special Characters</h5> <p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-LM32-1257"></a><a name="index-LM32-line-comment-character-1258"></a>The presence of a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ on a line indicates the start of a comment that extends to the end of the current line. Note that if a line starts with a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ character then it 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-LM32-1259"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-LM32-1260"></a><a name="index-LM32-line-separator-1261"></a>A semicolon (‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’) can be used to separate multiple statements on the same line. </body></html>