From d962dfe48c4aad172952bb6c031b5f327ce1cb0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:52:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] One or two digit octal escapes are legal

---
 src/verilog.y | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/verilog.y b/src/verilog.y
index 089d6705f..44639b188 100644
--- a/src/verilog.y
+++ b/src/verilog.y
@@ -1463,8 +1463,12 @@ string V3Parse::deQuote(FileLine* fileline, string text) {
 		}
 	    } else {
 		if (octal_digits) {
-		    fileline->v3error("Non-three digit octal escape code (\\###)");
+		    // Spec allows 1-3 digits
 		    octal_digits = 0;
+		    quoted = false;
+		    newtext += octal_val;
+		    --cp;  // Backup to reprocess terminating character as non-escaped
+		    continue;
 		}
 		quoted = false;
 		if (*cp == 'n') newtext += '\n';