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From: nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Motorola delimiters (was: Intel Assembly Language)
Summary: more flames about motorola 68k assembler
Message-ID: <672@palladium.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 89 00:10:55 GMT
References: <993@wpi.wpi.edu> <13261@steinmetz.ge.com> <18022@gatech.edu>
Reply-To: nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber)
Organization: Epoch Systems, Marlborough, MA
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In article <18022@gatech.edu> jkg@gatech.UUCP (Jim Greenlee) writes:
>In article <13261@steinmetz.ge.com> you write:
>>Does Motorola really use * for a comment??
>
>Yes, but only if it appears as the first character in a line. Comments
>at the end of a line are delimited by whitespace after the operands.

Of course, the assembler's opinion on what constitutes whitespace "after"
the operands may not agree with yours:

    1  00000002       A:        EQU     2
    2  00000004       B:        EQU     4
    3  00000002       APLUSB:   EQU     A + B		; NOT REALLY!
    4  00000006       APB:      EQU     A+B

A fine source of hours and hours of debugging entertainment! :-) :-)
-- 
Neil Webber / Epoch Systems, Marlboro MA / (508) 481-3717
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