Subject: Re: bug#40052: CC Mode 5.34 (C++//l); cc-mode hangs fontifying src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp in OpenJDK

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 09:22:31 -0400

> What was happening was backward_comment was searching back over the
> entire long macro for the beginning of a comment, and was doing so
> repeatedly.  It might be interesting to try sm-c-mode on Nick Gasson's
> file without the above patch to syntax.c.

That's what I did, that why I mentioned that I tested it with Emacs-26.

        Stefan