2005-10-11 Danny Smith <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>

* rclex.l (handle quotes): Stop parsing hex notation escaped
	chars after the first two digits,

binutils/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-10-11  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* rclex.l (handle quotes): Stop parsing hex notation escaped
+	chars after the first two digits,
+
 2005-10-11  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	PR binutils/1437

binutils/rclex.l

@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ handle_quotes (const char *input, unsigned long *len)
   char *ret, *s;
   const char *t;
   int ch;
+  int num_xdigits;
 
   ret = get_string (strlen (input) + 1);
 
@@ -389,7 +390,11 @@ handle_quotes (const char *input, unsigned long *len)
 	    case 'x':
 	      ++t;
 	      ch = 0;
-	      while (1)
+	      /* We only handle single byte chars here.  Make sure
+		 we finish an escape sequence like "/xB0ABC" after
+		 the first two digits.  */
+              num_xdigits = 2;
+ 	      while (num_xdigits--)
 		{
 		  if (*t >= '0' && *t <= '9')
 		    ch = (ch << 4) | (*t - '0');