+The semicolon @samp{;} is the line comment character;
+
+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 could also be
+a logical line number directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor
+control command (@pxref{Preprocessing}).
+
+@cindex line separator, Z80
+@cindex statement separator, Z80
+@cindex Z80 line separator
+The Z80 assembler does not support a line separator character.