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-@c Copyright 2002, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright 2002, 2004, 2005, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c This is part of the GAS manual.
 @c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
 @ifset GENERIC
@@ -85,7 +85,19 @@ They normally being used as an immediate source operand.
 
 @cindex line comment character, MSP 430
 @cindex MSP 430 line comment character
-@samp{;} is the line comment character.
+A semicolon (@samp{;}) appearing anywhere on a line starts 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 it can also be a logical line number
+directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor control command
+(@pxref{Preprocessing}).
+
+@cindex line separator, MSP 430
+@cindex statement separator, MSP 430
+@cindex MSP 430 line separator
+Multiple statements can appear on the same line provided that they are
+separated by the @samp{@{} character.
 
 @cindex identifiers, MSP 430
 @cindex MSP 430 identifiers