Hi Alan,

Thanks for the patch.

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Hello again, Marti.
>
> In article <mailman.13159.1502810889.21957.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you
> wrote:
> > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 98 lines --]
>
> > 1. From emacs -Q, open this file:
>
>
> > https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/blob/
> 2de59023dc726e61244eb7cca17252294016c65a/subsys/net/lib/http/http_client.c
>
> > 2. Observe incorrect syntax highlighting at beginning of file.
> Screenshot:
>
> >    https://postimg.org/image/tzy8qgjjz/
>
> >    (Note that loading a C file with just the #ifdefs and initial
> >    comment which fail to highlight above doesn't reproduce the issue.)
>
> I think the following patch should fix the bug.  Would you please apply
> it, try it out, and either confirm to me that it fixes the bug, or tell
> me what's still wrong:
>
>
> diff -r 9533dc4cbda3 cc-mode.el
> --- a/cc-mode.el        Thu Jul 27 17:37:02 2017 +0000
> +++ b/cc-mode.el        Wed Aug 16 20:48:54 2017 +0000
> @@ -1529,10 +1529,13 @@
>      (c-backward-syntactic-ws)
>      (when (setq pos1 (c-on-identifier))
>        (goto-char pos1)
> -      (when (and (c-forward-declarator)
> -                (eq (c-forward-token-2) 0))
> -       (c-backward-syntactic-ws)
> -       (point)))))
> +      (let ((lim (save-excursion
> +                  (and (c-beginning-of-macro)
> +                       (progn (c-end-of-macro) (point))))))
> +       (when (and (c-forward-declarator lim)
> +                  (eq (c-forward-token-2 1 nil lim) 0))
> +         (c-backward-syntactic-ws)
> +         (point))))))
>
>  (defun c-change-expand-fl-region (beg end old-len)
>    ;; Expand the region (c-new-BEG c-new-END) to an after-change font-lock
>

I couldn't manage to get this to apply, but I made the changes manually;
git format-patch output for the relevant commit is attached. This did
indeed resolve the issue.


>
> Thanks for taking the trouble to report this bug.
>
>
Thanks for taking the time to investigate and fix it.

Marti


> > In GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)
> >  of 2017-08-10 built on plop
> > Repository revision: 81656add8117e8d1b7faab18b330d0706462b433
> > Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version
> 11.0.11903000
> > System Description: Ubuntu 17.04
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>