bug#59435: 29.0.50; tree-sitter fails to fontify or indent simple function

[Yuan Fu]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> On Nov 20, 2022, at 10:09 PM, Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
>>> Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> c-ts-mode cannot fontify the following code:
>>> 
>>> ifsubmitbufl (tp)
>>> {
>>>  register   *kb1 = tp;
>>>  extern      tbase, i_len;
>>>  register    l = len;
>>> 
>>> again:
>>> 
>>>  highprio (); /* tbase is used by protoureg */
>>>  iomap (&UBR, tbase += UBR_SIZ);
>>>  UBR->addr_l = kb1;
>>>  UBR->addr_m = kb1 >> 010;
>>>  UBR->mode_l = 07777 &~ UBR_INST;
>>>  UBR->mode_m = 0;
>>>  UBR->long_l = l;
>>>  UBR->long_m = l >> 010;
>>> 
>>>  iounmap ();
>>>  tally_iostat (tbase);
>>>  iospoke (UBR, P_LOCK);
>>>  resetprio ();
>>> 
>>>  SWITCH (S_WAIT|S_HIGH|S_IMMED, 0700, again); /* this returns to
>>>                                               BR->senv[0], except
>>>                                               if CL_HI */
>>> }
>>> 
>>> here, ifsubmitbufl, tbase, l and again are fontified as types.  They are
>>> fontified correctly by CC Mode, as three identifiers and one label.
>>
>> Thanks, I fixe the label’s face.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> As for ifsubmitbufl, tbase, and l, I don’t really understand the
>> syntax here, and I think neither does tree-sitter . In general
>> tree-sitter struggles with nonstandard (in its book anyway) syntax.
>
> Well, that code is 100% valid C.  "*kb1, tbase, i_len, l" are implicitly
> int (which on that machine is 16 bits wide), and so is the value of
> "ifsubmitbufl" and "tp".
>
>> And there aren’t much we can do (except for maybe improve
>> tree-sitter-c’s parser).
>
> Would someone try that?
>
>> Seems to work fine here. I don’t see anything I changed recently that
>> could affect this, either.
>
> Sorry, I think I meant "before".  Place point after "l = len;", then
> press RET.

That seems to work too. It is indented as much as the previous line.

Yuan