dnl (Discard to next line) is an m4 builtin while # isn't I guess, not sure.
See also http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Dnl section 8.1

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Josef Vukovic
2009/8/11 Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>

> I see a mix of # and 'dnl' to start comments. Why is this? The more common
> '#' seems most useful, but I guess there is a reason for using dnl.
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