diff --git a/Units/parser-gperf.r/simple.d/input.perf b/Units/parser-gperf.r/simple.d/input.perf
index d4731ed440..6825ff3424 100644
--- a/Units/parser-gperf.r/simple.d/input.perf
+++ b/Units/parser-gperf.r/simple.d/input.perf
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ USR1, 10
 SEGV, 11
 USR2, 12
 PIPE, 13
+#IGNOREME
 ALRM, 14
 TERM, 15
 STKFLT, 16
diff --git a/optlib/gperf.c b/optlib/gperf.c
index 2dbb334558..2f187c3601 100644
--- a/optlib/gperf.c
+++ b/optlib/gperf.c
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ static void initializeGPerfParser (const langType language)
 	addLanguageTagMultiTableRegex (language, "keywordsec",
 	                               "^%%",
 	                               "", "", "{tjump=functions}{_guest=C,0end,}", NULL);
+	addLanguageTagMultiTableRegex (language, "keywordsec",
+	                               "^#[^\n]*\n?",
+	                               "", "", "", NULL);
 	addLanguageTagMultiTableRegex (language, "keywordsec",
 	                               "^([^\n,]+)[^\n]*\n?",
 	                               "\\1", "k", "", NULL);
diff --git a/optlib/gperf.ctags b/optlib/gperf.ctags
index 3fc19317e4..cb1c14763c 100644
--- a/optlib/gperf.ctags
+++ b/optlib/gperf.ctags
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@
 # - extrac keywords defined in %% ... %%
 #
 --_mtable-regex-GPerf=keywordsec/%%//{tjump=functions}{_guest=C,0end,}
+--_mtable-regex-GPerf=keywordsec/^#[^\n]*\n?//
 --_mtable-regex-GPerf=keywordsec/([^\n,]+)[^\n]*\n?/\1/k/
 --_mtable-regex-GPerf=keywordsec/[^\n]*\n//