C++11 'alignof' keyword not recognized

[Leedehai]

I know I could've tweak with the language setting file but updates can overwrite my modification...

[sean-mcmanus]

It's a bug with the VS Code's default Dark theme. If you switch your theme to something like Monokai, you should see it as keyword colored. I remember a bug was filed on VS Code about this, but I haven't found it yet.

[Leedehai]

@sean-mcmanus This is the pull request last year, but it is still not in production yet.

[sean-mcmanus]

@Leedehai No, the pull request last year is out. The problem is with the theme coloring you're using, which colors the alignof white instead of blue. The Monokai theme colors "alignof" correctly as a keyword.

However, there does appear to be another bug in that "alignof(" with a parenthesis is not being colored correctly. I've filed bug atom/language-c#246 for that.

[sean-mcmanus]

The previous theming bug we filed got fixed for sizeof (see microsoft/vscode#22419 ), but it looks like there's an additional issue with alignof. I added a comment to that bug and will open a new bug if necessary.

[DenisYaroshevskiy]

Hi! Just a ping in case this would boost the ticket's priority)

[sean-mcmanus]

@DenisYaroshevskiy This is bug atom/language-c#246, so it needs to be fixed there, so maybe you could upvote that issue? A fix was made in a forked repo of atom/language-c, but not the official repo, so someone could also to porting that fix.

[Colengms]

This issue is external to cpptools. The TextMate grammar for C++ (in VS Code) is correctly identifying the token as keyword.operator.alignof.cpp. It's up to the theme to apply a color to it.

microsoft/vscode#80783 is tracking adding some C/C++ specific tokens to the default themes in VS Code. I commented there about alignof, specifically.

Closing this issue. If someone feels strongly that this should also be tracked in cpptools, let us know.