as: Sparc-Chars

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1 9.44.3.1 Special Characters
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1 A '!' character appearing anywhere on a line indicates the start of a
1 comment that extends to the end of that 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    ';' can be used instead of a newline to separate statements.
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