> One of the reasons is that .S files do go through the preprocessor
> and assembler comments are not preprocessor comments.

Of course, the fundamental problem here is the use of a C-specific tool
(the C preprocessor) to process non-C text - the same basic problem
that X's imake suffers from.

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