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Michael> It occurs when you have a global variable initialized with a string
Michael> containing parentheses.  E.g.:

Michael> char * s1 = "global, in quotes (with parens)";
Michael>      char * s2 = "indented wrong";

Michael> Replications?  Explanations?  Fixes?

Explanation:  Emacs is guessing that the second line is the old-style
declaration of the argument of a function.

Fix:

*** /usr14/gnu/dist-18.55/lisp/c-mode.el	Fri May 27 21:28:12 1988
--- c-mode.el	Fri Sep 28 05:33:41 1990
***************
*** 375,386 ****
  			(re-search-backward "^[^ \^L\t\n#]" nil 'move)
  			(if (and (looking-at "\\sw\\|\\s_")
! 				 (looking-at ".*(")
! 				 (progn
! 				   (goto-char (1- (match-end 0)))
! 				   (forward-sexp 1)
! 				   (and (< (point) indent-point)
! 					(not (memq (following-char)
! 						   '(?\, ?\;))))))
! 			    c-argdecl-indent 0))))
  		 ;; Now add a little if this is a continuation line.
  		 (+ basic-indent (if (or (bobp)
--- 375,384 ----
  			(re-search-backward "^[^ \^L\t\n#]" nil 'move)
  			(if (and (looking-at "\\sw\\|\\s_")
! 				 (parse-partial-sexp (point) parse-start 0)
! 				 (eq ?\) (preceding-char))
! 				 (or (skip-chars-forward " \t\f\n") t)
! 				 (not (memq (following-char) '(?\, ?\;))))
! 			    c-argdecl-indent
! 			  0))))
  		 ;; Now add a little if this is a continuation line.
  		 (+ basic-indent (if (or (bobp)

The fix is not perfect, but most mistakes it might make are also made by
the current version, so it's an improvement.

Enjoy,

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>