-@c Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GAS manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
@ifset GENERIC
@cindex Z8000 line comment character
@samp{!} is the line comment character.
+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}).
+
@cindex line separator, Z8000
@cindex statement separator, Z8000
@cindex Z8000 line separator