http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57714
Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |manu at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #4 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to David Krauss from comment #0) > main(){\ > return 0; > } > > preprocesses to > > main(){return > 0; > } Actually, according to: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#cpp_continuation_discarded I am surprised the backslash is not simply discarded. It is discarded if you add a space before the "return". It is a bug that it is NOT discarded,