as: NS32K-Chars
9.31.1.1 Special Characters
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The presence of a '#' appearing anywhere on a line indicates the start
of a comment that extends to the end of that line.
If a '#' 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 (Comments) or a preprocessor control
command (Preprocessing).
If Sequent compatibility has been configured into the assembler then
the '|' character appearing as the first character on a line will also
indicate the start of a line comment.
The ';' character can be used to separate statements on the same
line.