warning: multi-line comment (why?)

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

I am running:
gcc version 2.96 20000917 (experimental) 

under x86 Redhat Linux.  I obtained the snapshot from Codesourcery.

If I have the following code:
====================================================================
//  Some comment
//  \
//  Some more comment
 
int main(int, char **) { return 0; }       
====================================================================

compiling with g++ will yield the following warning:
x.cc:2:2: warning: multi-line comment 

What is the point of this warning?  Shouldn't the preprocessor
just ignore everything between the // and the end-of-line?

Thanks.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
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