Subject: Re: bug#62339: cc-mode fontifies variables incorrectly when const follows type

From: Daniel Colascione <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:02:22 -0400

On March 22, 2023 20:43:02 Po Lu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Daniel Colascione <[email-masked]> writes:
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>> Can we back out this fix in the meantime?
>
> No.

Yes, we can  We lived with the old behavior for decades. We can live with 
it a few weeks longer.

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>
>> These "typeless" declarations can't be all that common.
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> I see them more or less every day.

Give me a break. No, you don't. Practically nobody uses this obscure and 
deprecated C feature. If people did, we'd have addressed the problem years ago.