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diff --git a/gas/doc/c-ppc.texi b/gas/doc/c-ppc.texi index 1436604..f0bcbd5 100644 --- a/gas/doc/c-ppc.texi +++ b/gas/doc/c-ppc.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@c Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 +@c Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 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. @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ @menu * PowerPC-Opts:: Options * PowerPC-Pseudo:: PowerPC Assembler Directives +* PowerPC-Syntax:: PowerPC Syntax @end menu @node PowerPC-Opts @@ -157,3 +158,33 @@ generated. @code{"string"} may be any of the -m cpu selection options @code{"pop"}. @code{.machine "push"} saves the currently selected cpu, which may be restored with @code{.machine "pop"}. @end table + +@node PowerPC-Syntax +@section PowerPC Syntax +@menu +* PowerPC-Chars:: Special Characters +@end menu + +@node PowerPC-Chars +@subsection Special Characters + +@cindex line comment character, PowerPC +@cindex PowerPC line comment character +The presence of a @samp{#} on a line indicates the start of a comment +that extends to the end of the current 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 could also be +a logical line number directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor +control command (@pxref{Preprocessing}). + +If the assembler has been configured for the ppc-*-solaris* target +then the @samp{!} character also acts as a line comment character. +This can be disabled via the @option{-mno-solaris} command line +option. + +@cindex line separator, PowerPC +@cindex statement separator, PowerPC +@cindex PowerPC line separator +The @samp{;} character can be used to separate statements on the same +line. |