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30.0.50; C tree-sitter bug?

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 61403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#61403: 30.0.50; C tree-sitter bug?
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 22:12:12 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> It actually ``static'' on TEST builds or nothing at all, not part of the
>> type.
>
> The above actually means that it _is_ part of the type.
>
>> It ought not to be fontified, just as we don't fontify _Noreturn
>> or __attribute__ as types.
>
> In 'static char', "static" is part of the type.

In a declaration like so:

static char *
foo (void)
{

}

ANSI C states that ``static'' is a storage class specifier, not a type
specifier or qualifier, definitely not part of the type, which is ``char
*''.

CC Mode normally fontifies this accordingly, in font-lock-keyword-face.

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