title: What does a backslash in C++ mean?
body: <p>What does this code: (especially, what does a backslash '\' ? )</p>
  
  <pre><code>s23_foo += \ 
  s8_foo * s16_bar;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I added the datatypes, because they might be relevant.
  Thanks for your help.</p>