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-@c Copyright 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009
+@c Copyright 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GAS manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
@@ -139,7 +139,10 @@ OpenVMS syntax, with a few differences for ELF.
@cindex line comment character, Alpha
@cindex Alpha line comment character
-@samp{#} is the line comment character.
+@samp{#} is the line comment character. Note that if @samp{#} is the
+first character on a line then it can also be a logical line number
+directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor control
+command (@pxref{Preprocessing}).
@cindex line separator, Alpha
@cindex statement separator, Alpha