-@c Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2006-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GAS manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
@cindex xc16x support
@menu
* xc16x Directives:: xc16x Machine Directives
+* xc16x Syntax:: xc16x Syntax
@end menu
@node xc16x Directives
@cindex @code{ascii} directive, xc16x
@item .ascii "@var{ascii}"
-This directive used for copying @var{str} into the object file.
+This directive used for copying @var{str} into the object file.
The string is terminated with a null byte.
@cindex @code{set} directive, xc16x
aligned to the power of two specified by @var{align}. @var{length} and
@var{align} must be positive absolute expressions. This directive
differs from @samp{.lcomm} only in that it permits you to specify
-an alignment.
+an alignment.
@end table
+
+@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.