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    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/58336>58336</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            clang-format: omit redundant escaped newlines (backslashes)
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            new issue
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          arbego
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    When we format this code

    #ifndef SOMETHING 
    #define SOMETHING  ((uint32_t)32000U)       /*!< Comment line 1*/
    #endif /* SOMETHING */                      /*!< Comment line 2
                                                 Comment line 3
                                                 Comment line 4*/

with `clang-format --verbose -style=webkit test.h` we get this output

    #ifndef SOMETHING
    #define SOMETHING ((uint32_t)32000U) /*!< Comment line 1*/
    #endif /* SOMETHING */ /*!< Comment line 2 \
                            Comment line 3     \
                            Comment line 4*/

Why does clang-format escape newlines inside a multi-line comment? Seems redundant to me. I could not find an option to turn this off.
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