Handle newlines and comments correctly

Newlines have to be handled before comments or comments won't be able to
handle line endings that don't include at least one LF character.

Also, document an obscure comment syntax: Anything that follows a '*'
placed at the start of a line is also a comment until the end of the
line.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Niño Díaz <antonio_nd@outlook.com>
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2018-02-22 22:11:30 +00:00
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@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ Example:
.Pp
All pseudoops, mnemonics and registers (reserved keywords) are caseinsensitive
and all labels are casesensitive.
.Pp
There are two syntaxes for comments. In both cases, a comment ends at the end of
the line. The most common one is: anything that follows a semicolon
\[dq]\&;\[dq] (that isn't inside a string) is a comment. There is another
format: anything that follows a \[dq]*\[dq] that is placed right at the start of
a line is a comment.
.Ss Sections
Before you can start writing code, you must define a section.
This tells the assembler what kind of information follows and, if it is code,