Remove a useless subsitution in doxygen2rst which was incorrectly replacing * by \*

Summary: For example, "int\* a;" is displayed instead of "int* a;"

Reviewers: djasper

Reviewed By: djasper

Subscribers: cfe-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30740

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@297363 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst

@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ the configuration (without a prefix: ``Auto``).
 
 **DerivePointerAlignment** (``bool``)
   If ``true``, analyze the formatted file for the most common
-  alignment of ``&`` and ``\*``. ``PointerAlignment`` is then used only as
+  alignment of ``&`` and ``*``. ``PointerAlignment`` is then used only as
   fallback.
 
 **DisableFormat** (``bool``)
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ the configuration (without a prefix: ``Auto``).
         Priority:        2
       - Regex:           '^(<|"(gtest|isl|json)/)'
         Priority:        3
-      - Regex:           '.\*'
+      - Regex:           '.*'
         Priority:        1
 
 **IncludeIsMainRegex** (``std::string``)
@@ -804,21 +804,21 @@ the configuration (without a prefix: ``Auto``).
 
     .. code-block:: c++
 
-      int\* a;
+      int* a;
 
   * ``PAS_Right`` (in configuration: ``Right``)
     Align pointer to the right.
 
     .. code-block:: c++
 
-      int \*a;
+      int *a;
 
   * ``PAS_Middle`` (in configuration: ``Middle``)
     Align pointer in the middle.
 
     .. code-block:: c++
 
-      int \* a;
+      int * a;
 
 
 

docs/tools/dump_format_style.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ def substitute(text, tag, contents):
   return re.sub(pattern, '%s', text, flags=re.S) % replacement
 
 def doxygen2rst(text):
-  text = re.sub(r'([^/\*])\*', r'\1\\*', text)
   text = re.sub(r'<tt>\s*(.*?)\s*<\/tt>', r'``\1``', text)
   text = re.sub(r'\\c ([^ ,;\.]+)', r'``\1``', text)
   text = re.sub(r'\\\w+ ', '', text)