Re: bug#54743: CC Mode 5.35.1 (C/*l); Incorrect fontification of function call as function name

Po Lu via CC-Mode-help <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Apr 2022 09:05:36 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.cc-mode.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes:

> This bug has the same cause as bug #52796, namely that a function's type
> contains the keyword struct, and an internal CC Mode cache thus thinks
> that the function's { is a struct's {, and that we are thus still at
> "top level".  The "fix" to that bug was to handle the * in "struct foo
> *" specially, but that wasn't a good enough fix for when "struct foo"
> occurs without a *, as here.
>
> So, the cause of the bug is understood.  The challenge will be to fix it
> without unduly slowing down CC Mode.  That's not going to happen this
> afternoon, I'm afraid.

Thanks for looking into it.