number of digits in a hex escape code in C/C++

Question

I\'m having a dispute with a colleague of mine. She says that the following:

char* a = \"\\x000aaxz\";

will/can be seen by the compiler as

Answer 1

Quote from MSDN on C++ character constants:

Octal escape sequences, specified in the form \ooo, consist of a backslash and one, two, or three octal characters. Hexadecimal escape sequences, specified in the form \xhhh, consist of the characters \x followed by a sequence of hexadecimal digits. Unlike octal escape constants, there is no limit on the number of hexadecimal digits in an escape sequence.

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