Syntax detection problem

Dear developers

I've noticed a possible problem with the way that AUCTeX's syntax 
detection/highlighting works on a LaTeX document. Take the following 
snippet of code:

\verb=C:\=

by which, of course, I intend to insert 'C:\' into a document. 
AUCTeX/Emacs fails to recognize the end of the \verb environment, so the 
rest of the document gets flooded with brown text. This only happens 
when final character is a backslash, so it seems that the identification 
  of a command (\=) is somehow interfering with detection of the end of 
the \verb environment.

best regards,
-- 
Ian Underwood
  [email protected]
  www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s0453746