backslash whitespace newline

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:52:36AM +0900, Neil Booth wrote:
> Howard Hinnant wrote:-
> 
> > I've been reviewing the age-old issue of interpreting  
> > <whitespace>*<newline> as the end-of-line indicator as is the current  
> > practice with gcc.
> 
> FWIW I support abandoning this behaviour too.

It would probably be a good idea to warn about code where this will
make a difference, since the older gcc versions will be around for a long
time.