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1 9.15.3.2 Special Characters
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1 The presence of a '#' appearing anywhere on a line indicates the start
1 of a 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 can also be a logical
1 line number directive (⇒Comments) or a preprocessor control
1 command (⇒Preprocessing).
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1    If the '--divide' command line option has not been specified then the
1 '/' character appearing anywhere on a line also introduces a line
1 comment.
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1    The ';' character can be used to separate statements on the same
1 line.
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