pointer highlighting issue

[ahmedhassan-eng]

should not be considered as pointer.

[cipri-tom]

That is very difficult to get right with Regex only.
However, I have modified the "pointer" section in C.tmLanguage (you can access it using the package ResourceViewer):

<!---------------------------------------------------
Pointer - CCpp line 441
----------------------------------------------------->
    <dict>
        <key>match</key>
        <string>\w+\:\:\w+\*</string>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>pointer.ccpp</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>match</key>
        <string>\*\(\w+\)</string>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>pointer.ccpp</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>match</key>
        <string>\(\w+\)\*</string>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>pointer.ccpp</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>match</key>
        <string>\w+\*\W</string>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>pointer.ccpp</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>match</key>
        <string>\s\*\w+</string>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>pointer.ccpp</string>
    </dict>