diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl b/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl
index 0a3703bef5eb6687c69fddbd57339c57ddcd7948..34bd9e2630b0e7a8582edb226136c483199d354e 100755
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ foreach my $r (keys %typedefs) {
 	$data =~ s/($start_delim)($r)$end_delim/$1$s$3/g;
 }
 
+$data =~ s/\\ \n/\n/g;
+
 #
 # Generate output file
 #