diff --git a/userspace/marsadm b/userspace/marsadm
index ad689379..72941d80 100755
--- a/userspace/marsadm
+++ b/userspace/marsadm
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ sub call_hook {
 
 # syntactic scanning / parsing
 
-my $match_comment = qr'#[^\n]*|//\h[^\n]*|/\*(?:[^*]|\*[^/])*\*/';
+my $match_comment = qr'#[^\n]*|//\h[^\n]*|/\*(?:[^*]|\*[^/])*\*/|\\\n\s*';
 my $match_nobrace = qr'(?:[^{}\\]|\\.)*'s;
 my $match_inner = $match_nobrace;
 my $match_brace = qr"\{$match_inner\}"s;