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

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org]

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

Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|FIXED                       |INVALID

--- Comment #7 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to duncan_roe@acslink.net.au from comment #5)
> 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".

No it is not defined there.  It is defined by the ISO C standard.  The section
6.4.4.4 is where this specific item is defined.