bug#59427: CC Mode 5.35.2 (C/*l); More bad fontification

Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello, Po.
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:32:26 +0800, Po Lu via CC-Mode-help wrote:
>> Package: cc-mode
>
>> Insert the following text in a c-mode buffer:
>
>> static uint64_t
>> ConfineTime (uint64_t time)
>> {
>>   uint32_t milliseconds;
>
>>   /* Given a microsecond time, confine the millisecond part to
>>      CARD32.  */
>>   milliseconds = time / 1000;
>
>>   return (milliseconds * (uint64_t) 1000
>> 	  + time % 1000);
>> }
>
>> Notice how "milliseconds" is recognized as a type, and the uint64_t in
>> the cast as an identifier.
>
> Yes.  Here the "symmetric space" criterion for * was buggy.  That
> criterion says if there is whitespace on neither side of the *, or both,
> it is a multiplication sign.  Otherwise it is the indirection operator.
>
> The bug was not taking the ( properly into account.  Please apply the
> attached patch, which should fix this, and confirm it works OK.  Thanks!

Oh dear.  My personal programming style uses a "type * name" spacing for
pointers.  (More specifically, I put spaces on either side of "*", "&"
or "&&" when used to form types.)  Is this going to cause me problems in
the future?

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
([email protected])