+
+@node xc16x Syntax
+@section xc16x Syntax
+@menu
+* xc16x-Chars:: Special Characters
+@end menu
+
+@node xc16x-Chars
+@subsection Special Characters
+
+@cindex line comment character, xc16x
+@cindex xc16c line comment character
+The presence of a @samp{;} appearing anywhere on a line indicates the
+start of a comment that extends to the end of that line.
+
+If a @samp{#} appears as the first character of a line then the whole
+line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line can also be a
+logical line number directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor
+control command (@pxref{Preprocessing}).
+
+@cindex line separator, xc16x
+@cindex statement separator, xc16x
+@cindex xc16x line separator
+The XC16X assembler does not support a line separator character.