diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index ae3456796f65..ccd750adcba8 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-12-06  Sylvain Pion  <Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr>
+	  
+        * cpplex.c (skip_escaped_newlines): Don't warn for spaces between
+        backslash and newline, when inside a comment.
+
 2000-12-06  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
 
 	* invoke.texi: Use @table @samp instead of @itemize @minus for
diff --git a/gcc/cpplex.c b/gcc/cpplex.c
index f6818300f3dc..17a89b9b67ca 100644
--- a/gcc/cpplex.c
+++ b/gcc/cpplex.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ skip_escaped_newlines (buffer, next)
 	      break;
 	    }
 
-	  if (space)
+	  if (space && !buffer->pfile->state.lexing_comment)
 	    cpp_warning (buffer->pfile,
 			 "backslash and newline separated by space");