<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/55126>55126</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            clang-format 9.0.0 is formatting a pointer like a trailing return
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            new issue
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          gnawme
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    Using clang-format in VS Code to format on save. It's formatting this line of code as shown, with padding around the `->`:

```
auto maxBytes = msg_p -> getMaxBytes();  // must be big enough for FPGA or Host msg !!
```
</pre>
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