[Bug c/57707] gcc misinterprets hex escapes in constant strings

[duncan_roe at acslink dot net.au]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57707

duncan_roe at acslink dot net.au <duncan_roe at acslink dot net.au> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from duncan_roe at acslink dot net.au <duncan_roe at acslink dot net.au> ---
There's no need for that. C is defined in Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C
Programming Language". They mandate \xhh as a character escape. No mention of
"except when the next character happens to be a hex digit".