faster parsing of escape sequences in string literals

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.pxd b/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.pxd
index 76d38c51048f8a4dad4e90a03040ccfe0984b680..53239188b4f0f23fa9c95be4e34b3f3290b03039 100644 (file)
--- a/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.pxd
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.pxd
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ cpdef p_name(PyrexScanner s, name)
 cpdef p_cat_string_literal(PyrexScanner s)
 cpdef p_opt_string_literal(PyrexScanner s, required_type=*)
 cpdef bint check_for_non_ascii_characters(unicode string)
+@cython.locals(systr=unicode)
 cpdef p_string_literal(PyrexScanner s, kind_override=*)
 cpdef p_list_maker(PyrexScanner s)
 cpdef p_comp_iter(PyrexScanner s, body)