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cc-mode fontifies variables incorrectly when const follows type

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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 62339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#62339: cc-mode fontifies variables incorrectly when const
 follows type
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:02:22 -0400

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On March 22, 2023 20:43:02 Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

> Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org> writes:
>
>> 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.

>
>
>> These "typeless" declarations can't be all that common.
>
> 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.

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