From a76dcdc4193f566bc7f8a3e14dd26d0ed0951074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg King <gregdk@users.sf.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:51:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Removed the compiler's recovery code for illegal escaped
 characters.

It caused the error cascade that it was supposed to prevent.
---
 src/cc65/scanner.c | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cc65/scanner.c b/src/cc65/scanner.c
index c9009bc2f..90c0f73f6 100644
--- a/src/cc65/scanner.c
+++ b/src/cc65/scanner.c
@@ -347,16 +347,8 @@ static int ParseChar (void)
                     Error ("Octal character constant out of range");
                 break;
             default:
-                Error ("Illegal character constant");
-                C = ' ';
-                /* Try to do error recovery, otherwise the compiler will spit
-                ** out thousands of errors in this place and abort.
-                */
-                if (CurC != '\'' && CurC != '\0') {
-                    while (NextC != '\'' && NextC != '\"' && NextC != '\0') {
-                        NextChar ();
-                    }
-                }
+                Error ("Illegal escaped character");
+                C = CurC;
                 break;
         }
     } else {
-- 
2.39.5