GNU bug report logs - #23775
25.0.95.2; c-mode: Incorrect indentation and function bundery detection

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Message #18 received at 23775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rolf Ade <rolf <at> pointsman.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 23775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23775: 25.0.95.2; c-mode: Incorrect indentation and function
 bundery detection
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:16:00 +0200

Hello Alan,

Am 06/16/2016 11:18 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> [...]
> I tried once before to solve this problem, but didn't get very far.  What
> was obvious, at the time, was that a solution would slow CC Mode down,
> possibly quite a bit.
>
> So, we've collectively decided that this bug, although real, won't be
> fixed.  The best advice we can give is to arrange the C code such that
> unbalanced braces in #if arms don't happen.
>
> Sorry.

Just for the record: I stumbled about that in the wild. This function:
http://core.tcl.tk/tdom/artifact/3a53ac985a15644d?ln=2142-2535
triggers the bug.

I stripped down to a minimal example from that, not from the idea to
do "preprocessor tricks" to fool c-mode.

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