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    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/139717>139717</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [clang-format]: Feature Request add option to ReferenceAlignment when using east-const
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            clang-format
      </td>
    </tr>

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

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

<pre>
    It would be nice to have a way to have an extra option to `ReferenceAlignment` (and `PointerAlignment` I guess) when `QualifierAlignment` is set to `Right` in order to remove any space between `const` and `&`, and still add spaces before `&` the rest of the time.

AFAIK, it is currently (*)  impossible to format in the following way:

```c++
SomeType & lvref;       // space before "&"
SomeType && rvref;      // space before "&&"
SomeType const& cref;   // no-space before "&", but before "const&"
SomeType const&& crvref // same thing
```

Indeed, if we select `Middle` for `ReferenceAlignment`, an extra space will be added to `const &`

(*) tested with clang-format 19, and the documentation of clang-format-21 shows no difference on the topic.
</pre>
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