> My prior comment was just an example. In fact, every pointer definition should be `type* var` instead of `type *var`. There's one in the test code, too.

OK, fixed; but, ...
That style will be even more difficult to remember than the comment style. :-)
When we _use_ pointer variables, we write `*var`, not `* var`.  I'm not the only one who will have a problem with it.  It isn't used consistently in the codebase -- in some places, not even in the same file!