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Merge pull request #804 from Rangi42/normal-backslash

Backslash in normal lexer mode must be a line continuation

--- a/src/asm/lexer.c

+++ b/src/asm/lexer.c

@@ -2059,29 +2059,15 @@

 		case EOF:

 			return T_EOF;

-		/* Handle escapes */

+		/* Handle line continuations */

 		case '\\':

-			c = peek(0);

-

-			switch (c) {

-			case ' ':

-			case '\r':

-			case '\n':

-				readLineContinuation();

-				break;

-

-			case EOF:

-				error("Illegal character escape at end of input\n");

-				break;

-

-			default:

-				shiftChars(1);

-				error("Illegal character escape '%s'\n", print(c));

-			}

+			// Macro args were handled by `peek`, and character escapes do not exist

+			// outside of string literals, so this must be a line continuation.

+			readLineContinuation();

 			break;

-		/* Handle identifiers and escapes... or error out */

+		/* Handle identifiers... or report garbage characters */

 		default:

 			if (startsIdentifier(c)) {