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        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/111011>111011</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            clang-format adds unnecessary space before & when :: operator is used
        </td>
    </tr>

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      <th>Labels</th>
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      <th>Assignees</th>
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      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          mkaz101
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</table>

<pre>
    I experienced a strange bug in clang-format in version 19.1.1.
I have a setting to keep reference (&) signs glued to the type on the left side. This formatting works for most functions, however if the function is in global scope (prepended with ::) clang-format is adding additional space between the type and &.

Here is the small code snippet that I used for testing.

```
class test {
  friend std::ostream& ::operator<<(std::ostream & lhs,
                                    const ::test_1::test2 &
                                        rhs);

 friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& lhs,
 const ::test_1::test2& rhs);
}
```
</pre>
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