Similarly in GCC it is hardcoded, with a choice of ASCII or EBCDIC (in gcc/libcpp/charset.cc):
/// ProcessCharEscape - Parse a standard C escape sequence, which can occur in
/// either a character or a string literal.
static unsigned ProcessCharEscape(const char *ThisTokBegin,
const char *&ThisTokBuf,
const char *ThisTokEnd, bool &HadError,
FullSourceLoc Loc, unsigned CharWidth,
DiagnosticsEngine *Diags,
const LangOptions &Features) {
const char *EscapeBegin = ThisTokBuf;
// Skip the '\' char.
++ThisTokBuf;
// We know that this character can't be off the end of the buffer, because
// that would have been \", which would not have been the end of string.
unsigned ResultChar = *ThisTokBuf++;
switch (ResultChar) {
...
case 'n':
ResultChar = 10;
break;
...