bug#59051: CC Mode 5.35.1 (C/*l); "Window scroll_bar" fontified as type

Po Lu via CC-Mode-help <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:19:02 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.cc-mode.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes:

> It's been some while since you submitted this bug report, but I now have
> a patch for it.
>
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 20:34:46 +0800, Po Lu via CC-Mode-help wrote:
>> Package: cc-mode
>
>> Go to src/xterm.c in the Emacs source code.  Then, type M-> and keep
>> pressing M-v until the beginning of the buffer is reached.  Afterwards,
>> go to line 14458, around which will be the following function
>> definition:
>
>> MAYBE_UNUSED static void
>> xi_select_scroll_bar_events (struct x_display_info *dpyinfo,
>> 			     Window scroll_bar)
>> {
>>   XIEventMask mask;
>>   unsigned char *m;
>>   ptrdiff_t length;
>
>>   length = XIMaskLen (XI_LASTEVENT);
>>   mask.mask = m = alloca (length);
>>   memset (m, 0, length);
>>   mask.mask_len = length;
>
>> "scroll_bar" in "Window scroll_bar" will be fontified as a type!
>
> What happens here is there's a macro invocation with the type "struct
> scroll_bar" as one of the arguments.  This is in function
> x_scroll_bar_create, and the code there looks like:
>
>   struct scroll_bar *bar = ALLOCATE_PSEUDOVECTOR (struct scroll_bar, prev,
>                                                   PVEC_OTHER);
>
> ..  This argument was enough to derail the fontification of scroll_bar
> throughout the buffer.
>
> Would you please do the usual with the attached patch, and let me know
> whether there are still problems with this bug.  Thanks!

This one seems to be gone now, but I haven't had a chance to thoroughly
test yet.

Thanks.