There is potential for confusion if an octal or hexadecimal escape sequence is immediately followed by other characters. Instead, such sequences
shall be terminated by either:
- The start of another escape sequence.
- The end of the character constant or the end of a string literal.
Noncompliant code example
const char *s1 = "\x41g"; // Noncompliant
int c1 = '\141t'; // Noncompliant
Compliant solution
const char *s2 = "\x41" "g"; // Compliant - terminated by end of literal
const char *s3 = "\x41\x67"; // Compliant - terminated by another escape
int c2 = '\141\t'; // Compliant - terminated by another escape