preprocessor/5735: Incorrect handling of escaped newlines

[jbeulich@novell.com]

>Number:         5735
>Category:       preprocessor
>Synopsis:       Incorrect handling of escaped newlines
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 20 05:46:02 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jan Beulich
>Release:        3.0.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Cygwin hosted on Win2000
>Description:
According to the standard, a backslash separated from a
newline by whitespace is not eligible for line splicing.
If, for compatibility, this feature is to be retained it
should be made available via command line switch which
defaults to off (i.e. to behave conformingly by default).
>How-To-Repeat:
Just examine the relevant code in skip_escaped_newlines.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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