2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index abe2ed75ad0..49f5d73442e 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-09-18  Alan Mackenzie  <acm@muc.de>
+
+        Fix fontification of type when followed by "const".
+        * progmodes/cc-engine.el (c-forward-decl-or-cast-1): Don't exclude
+        "known" types from fontification.
+
 2013-09-18  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * emacs-lisp/chart.el (x-display-color-cells): Declare.
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el b/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
index c8a9c461a9d..582f7ef0a54 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
@@ -7408,7 +7408,11 @@ comment at the start of cc-engine.el for more info."
         ;; interactive refontification.
         (c-put-c-type-property (point) 'c-decl-arg-start))
 
-      (when (and c-record-type-identifiers at-type (not (eq at-type t)))
+      (when (and c-record-type-identifiers at-type ;; (not (eq at-type t))
+                 ;; There seems no reason to exclude a token from
+                 ;; fontification just because it's "a known type that can't
+                 ;; be a name or other expression".  2013-09-18.
+                 )
         (let ((c-promote-possible-types t))
           (save-excursion
             (goto-char type-start)