http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57707
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|FIXED |INVALID --- Comment #7 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to duncan_...@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.