bison/yacc difference: bison doesn't recognize \-continued strings

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From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 02:55

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Yacc accepts the following input, bison complains about
an unterminated string.

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%{
static char copyright[] = "Copyright....\
     continued copyright\n";
%}
%%
foo: /* empty */
     | foo '+'
;
%%
========
 > % bison  bb.y 
 > "bb.y", line 2: unterminated string

I have the same bison-1.01 that is on prep.ai.mit.edu today.
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Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu

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