as: PowerPC-Chars

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1 9.35.3.1 Special Characters
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1 The presence of a '#' on a line indicates the start of a comment that
1 extends to the end of the current line.
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1    If a '#' appears as the first character of a line then the whole line
1 is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be a
1 logical line number directive (⇒Comments) or a preprocessor
1 control command (⇒Preprocessing).
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1    If the assembler has been configured for the ppc-*-solaris* target
1 then the '!' character also acts as a line comment character.  This can
1 be disabled via the '-mno-solaris' command line option.
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1    The ';' character can be used to separate statements on the same
1 line.
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