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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: unix + asm
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>> `#' is a standard comment symbol (I think '/' works too), but it is best
>> to usually use C comments, since `# if' is a cpp conditional, not a
>> comment, and everything must be a cpp token.

>This is only true for .S files which are preprocessed.  .s files are
>being passed directly to the assembler.

All kernel .s files are preprocessed, and there is only one .s file in
/usr/src that isn't a kernel .s file (tn3270/general/vaxbsubs.s).

Bruce