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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.29.2.2 Special Characters</h5>

<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-MSP-430-1633"></a><a name="index-MSP-430-line-comment-character-1634"></a>A semicolon (&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>&rsquo;) appearing anywhere on a line starts a comment
that extends to the end of that line.

   <p>If a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>&rsquo; appears as the first character of a line then the whole
line is treated as a comment, but 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-MSP-430-1635"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-MSP-430-1636"></a><a name="index-MSP-430-line-separator-1637"></a>Multiple statements can appear on the same line provided that they are
separated by the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">{</span></samp>&rsquo; character.

   <p><a name="index-identifiers_002c-MSP-430-1638"></a><a name="index-MSP-430-identifiers-1639"></a>The character &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">$</span></samp>&rsquo; in jump instructions indicates current location and
implemented only for TI syntax compatibility.

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