Merge branch 'master' into comment

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/node.c b/node.c
index 1c896342..213b5335 100644
--- a/node.c
+++ b/node.c
@@ -557,9 +557,8 @@ parse_escape(const char **string_ptr)
 			warning(_("no hex digits in `\\x' escape sequence"));
 			return ('x');
 		}
-		i = j = 0;
 		start = *string_ptr;
-		for (;; j++) {
+		for (i = j = 0; j < 2; j++) {
 			/* do outside test to avoid multiple side effects */
 			c = *(*string_ptr)++;
 			if (isxdigit(c)) {