Rather than adding new flags, I'd think I'd prefer:
1. Change the behavior (back) so only '\\$', not '\\ *$', causes a line to be continued. 2. Make -Wcomment more useful to it only warns when it might matter: The following line contains non-comment whitespace. 3. Make -Wcomment the default - not just for -Wall, but always. It can be turned off with -Wno-comment -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/