Comments In GAS Assembly

Anything from `/*' through the next `*/' is a comment.

 

For x86, # starts a line comment. / also starts a line comment. / can also start a line comment. 

But / must be the first non-whitespace character.

 

For details, refero to 

  1 http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Comments.html#Comments

  2 http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/i386_002dOptions.html#index-g_t_0040samp_007b_002d_002ddivide_007d-option_002c-i386-863