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cc-mode fontifies variables incorrectly when const follows type

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Message #29 received at 62339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
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: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:45:21 +0800

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

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

I reported this bug because I saw such code in use.

> Give me a break. No, you don't.

I do.  I *see* code making use of implicit int every day.

> Practically nobody uses this obscure and deprecated C feature. If
> people did, we'd have addressed the problem years ago.

Who does ``we'' refer to?

Put bluntly, you have no right to decide what C code I see or write, or
what C code Alan wants to support.  Declarations consisting of only a
storage class specifier are part of the 1989 C Standard.

This bug is no more important than bug#59267, and both will have to be
fixed and stay fixed.

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