The following reply was made to PR standards/17732; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: standards/17732
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:15:32 +0100

 Here's a correction for this problem:
 
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 Index: parse.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/make/parse.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.98
 diff -u -r1.98 parse.c
 --- parse.c	1 May 2005 01:25:36 -0000	1.98
 +++ parse.c	5 May 2005 17:12:41 -0000
 @@ -2557,6 +2557,14 @@
  			 */
  			do {
  			    c = ParseReadc();
 +			    /*
 +			     * If we found a backslash it means that
 +			     * the comment is being escaped, so we
 +			     * must ignore the new line that's going to
 +			     * come next.
 +			     */
 +			    if (c == '\\')
 +				ParseReadc();
  			} while ((c != '\n') && (c != EOF));
  			goto line_read;
  		    } else {
 Index: make.1
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/make/make.1,v
 retrieving revision 1.106
 diff -u -r1.106 make.1
 --- make.1	1 May 2005 00:37:10 -0000	1.106
 +++ make.1	5 May 2005 17:12:41 -0000
 @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@
  Comments begin with a hash
  .Pq Ql \&#
  character, anywhere but in a shell
 -command line, and continue to the end of the line.
 +command line, and continue to the end of a non-escaped line.
  .Sh SPECIAL SOURCES (ATTRIBUTES)
  .Bl -tag -width .IGNOREx
  .It Ic .EXEC
 
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