Re: Slow fontification in C mode buffers

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:30:25AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello again, Kanru!

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:31:36PM +0800, Kan-Ru Chen wrote:
> > Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> > > By a happy coincidence, I've just tracked down another sluggishness (in
> > > large array initialisations, reported by Peter Milliken on bug-cc-mode)
> > > which looks to have exactly the same cause, namely
> > > `c-font-lock-enclosing-decls' which fontifies the innards of a
> > > struct/union/enum when jit-lock etc. starts in the middle of it.

> > Is this the same problem?

> NO!

> > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10288

> I've seen what the problem is.  You've got lots of declarations not
> separated by commas.  If DEFINE_DATA_ENTRY is a macro "with its own
> semicolon", follow the instructions in chapter "Macros with ;" in the CC
> Mode manual.

Sorry, please ignore the previous paragraph.  It's rubbish!

> > -- 
> > Kanru

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).