-@c Copyright 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
+@c Copyright 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GAS manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
keywords, user identifiers, and also some multicharacter special
symbols like "+=", "/*" or "||".
+Comments are introduced by the @samp{#} character and extend to the
+end of the current line. If the @samp{#} appears as the first
+character of a line, 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}).
+
@item Instruction Delimiting
A semicolon must terminate every instruction. Sometimes a complete
instruction will consist of more than one operation. There are two
a0 = r3.h * r2.l || r1 = [p3++] || r4 = [i2++];
@end smallexample
+Multiple instructions can occour on the same line. Each must be
+terminated by a semicolon character.
+
@item Register Names
The assembler treats register names and instruction keywords in a case