#78 AVRA bug on comment line

[Wagner Lipnharski]

AVRA: advanced AVR macro assembler Version 1.3.0 Build 1 (8 May 2010)
Running on Linux Mint.

The following causes "Error: Line Too Long"
The happens because the attempt to concatenate several lines and becoming a long line, even so AVRASM can deal with. The problem itself is not only the long line concatenation issue, but by the fact that it is a "commented line", the assembler should not even think to deal with.

; .DB $00,$00,$00,$0F,$FC,$00,$0F,$FC,$00,$0F,$FC,$00,\ ; $0F,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,\ ; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00
; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00
; $00,$FC,$00,$00,$FC,$00,$00,$00,$00,255

Another problem found is each "\" at the end of a commented line, AVRA reduce one in the line number posted on error messages. It consider two lines in one. This is a problem when trying to locate the error, the report points to a wrong line.

"\" on comment lines should not be processed as a split line, it can be part of the comment.

Also consider the possibility to understand / / as comment, it is very usefull to temporarily eliminate several lines of the program by simply encapsulating it in

/
comment lines/

[Wagner Lipnharski]

wow, the format of the post changed completely my text.
Each backslash above terminates a line, it concatenate the lines.
The text "Also consider the possibility to understand //" is in real \* *\ slash+star star+slash

How many bytes a .db line can hold to not generate a "line too long" error? My tests here shows any .db with 64 or more characters generate "line too long". I think AVRA could accept larger number of chars on a .db line, even that "concatenation" serves for this, right?