From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 23:21:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: xgettext: C: Treat invalid escape sequences like GCC does.
X-Git-Tag: v0.20~255
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da0fd87adf99893833f1c40e8a64802e5a1998a1;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

xgettext: C: Treat invalid escape sequences like GCC does.

* gettext-tools/src/x-c.c (phase7_getc): For invalid escape sequences "\c",
produce c, not a backslash.
---

diff --git a/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c b/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c
index 0d43fc8d2..a81b85101 100644
--- a/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c
+++ b/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c
@@ -1028,11 +1028,8 @@ phase7_getc ()
   switch (c)
     {
     default:
-      /* Unknown escape sequences really should be an error, but just
-         ignore them, and let the real compiler complain.  */
-      phase3_ungetc (c);
-      return '\\';
-
+      /* Invalid escape sequences generate a GCC warning, and GCC transforms
+         \c to the character c.  So let's do the same.  */
     case '"':
     case '\'':
     case '?':