bug#56818: 28.1; c-mode font-lock issues in Emacs 28

[Bill Sacks]

Starting with Emacs 28, I have been seeing font-lock issues when editing C and C++ code. The situation where I see this the most (though I'm not sure if it's the only situation) is when I am writing a comment and currently have a space at the end of the comment line: in this situation, the fontification of a variable name or function name on the next line becomes broken until I type a non-space character to end the current line.

The attached screen shots illustrate the problem: nospaces.png shows the correct fontification; space_before_var.png and space_before_function.png show that variable and function names lose their fontification when there is a space at the end of the previous comment line. Running M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer temporarily fixes the issue.

The problem occurs even when using emacs -Q. I have tried the latest emacs28 pretest and the latest nightly build available from emacsformacosx (though with my customizations – NOT with emacs -Q) and those also exhibit the problem. The latest emacs27 from emacsformacosx does NOT have this issue.

(I have also been seeing slightly similar font-lock issues when editing python code with Emacs 28. There, I get inconsistent fontification of variables: variables sometimes are not fontified with font-lock-variable-name-face when I initially load a file, but then if I edit a line – e.g., by adding a space at the end of the line – then the variable defined on that line will become properly fontified. I realize that this may be a separate issue that may warrant its own bug report, but I thought I'd mention it in case it's related.)

Thank you,
Bill


In GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 2, aarch64-apple-darwin21.5.0, NS appkit-2113.50 Version 12.4 (Build 21F79))
of 2022-07-19 built on cgdm-green
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2113
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space_before_var.png
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space_before_function.png
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nospaces.png
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