I could be stretching the definition of "does" but the newfound(?) tree-sitter support in Emacs[1] I believe would allow that since it for sure understands the

I could be stretching the definition of "does" but the newfound(?) tree-sitter support in Emacs[1] I believe would allow that since it for sure understands the distinction but I don't possess enough font-lock ninjary to actually, for real, bind a different color to the distinct usages /* given foo.c */ int main() { int a, *b; a = 5 * 10; b = &a; printf("a is %d\n", *b); } and then M-x c-ts-mode followed by navigating to each * and invoking M-x treesit-inspect-node-at-point in turn produces, respectively: (declaration declarator: (pointer_declarator "*")) right: (binary_expression operator: "*") arguments: (argument_list (pointer_expression operator: "*")) 1: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Tree-sitter https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Tree-sitter