Re: [Ctags-devel] Various patches (though mostly JavaScript ones)

[David F. <dfi...@gm...>]

Elias, could you please resend this to the list. I deleted it by mistake and need to see it. 
This is off my cell so it won't be cached long. 

Thanks. 

--
David Fishburn


On Sep 25, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Elias Pschernig <eli...@gm...> wrote:

> (I'm just forwarding this to the list)
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:18:17 +0200
> From: Colomban Wendling <lis...@he...>
> To: cta...@li..., el...@us...
> Subject: Various patches (though mostly JavaScript ones)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a developer of Geany [1] (which embeds a slightly modified version
> of CTags), and I recently made a few fixes on our CTags copy, especially
> on the JavaScript parser.  I'm sending you the patches against CTags
> itself [2], if you're interested in them.
> 
> The patches are (long descriptions in the each patch' header):
> 
> General:
> 
> 0002-Fix-improper-use-of-const-type-qualifier.patch:
>    Fix a questionable use of the "const" type qualifier resulting
>    mostly in improper lines numbers with some parsers (seen in the
>    JavaScript parser).  Details in the patch, but basically the
>    compilers may "improperly" optimize the content of the File
>    global (seen with GCC and CLang when optimizing).
> 
> JavaScript parser:
> 
> 0001-JavaScript-Set-scope-information.patch and
> 0004-JavaScript-Create-proper-scope-for-tags-including-co.patch:
>    Set the tag's scope rather than including it in the tag name.
>    (Geany bug #3570192 [3])
> 
> 0003-JavaScript-Don-t-set-token-position-information-agai.patch:
>    Just an optimization actually -- but also somewhat works around
>    what 0002 above properly fixes: less calls means less room for
>    the values to be improperly cached.
> 
> 0005-JavaScript-Fix-recognizing-functions-inside-methods.patch:
>    Patch from an user, fixes generation of function tags inside
>    methods.
>    (Geany bug #3571233 [4]).
> 
> 0006-JavaScript-Don-t-drop-the-token-after-an-unbraced-if.patch:
>    Fix for unbraced if/else, and adds more tests to 1880687.js
>    (Geany bug #3568542 [5])
> 
> 0007-JavaScript-Simplify-parseJfFile-code-no-functional-c.patch:
>    Just to make the parseJfFile() code a little simpler.
> 
> 0008-JavaScript-Properly-consume-closing-brace-after-a-bl.patch:
>    Fix findCmdTerm() when it encounters an open curly.
> 
> 0009-JavaScript-Fix-some-unterminated-statement-corner-ca.patch:
>    Fix some more unterminated statements problems, still in
>    1880687.js.
> 
> 0010-JavaScript-Lowercase-object-isn-t-a-keyword.patch:
>    Lowercase "object" isn't actually a JavaScript keyword.
>    (Geany bug #3036476 [6])
> 
> 0011-JavaScript-Fix-parsing-non-method-properties.patch:
>    Properly handle properties values.
>    (Geany bug #3470609 [7])
> 
> 0012-JavaScript-Create-class-tag-for-variable-with-childr.patch:
>    Generate class tag for variables for which we generated
>    children tags.
> 
> 
> I hope you may find these patches interesting.
> 
> Best regards,
> Colomban
> 
> 
> PS: I'm sorry if you received a similar mail yesterday; but the list
> agent told me it was rejected because my account wasn't approved yet,
> and I haven't received it back from the list.  Also, this version
> includes a few more patches (0008-0012).
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.geany.org/
> [2] From a git-svn clone, but the code is the same, and the the patches
> are git-formatted.
> [3]
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3570192&group_id=153444&atid=787791
> [4]
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3571233&group_id=153444&atid=787791
> [5]
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3568542&group_id=153444&atid=787791
> [6]
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3036476&group_id=153444&atid=787791
> [7]
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3470609&group_id=153444&atid=787791
> 
> <0001-JavaScript-Set-scope-information.patch>
> <0002-Fix-improper-use-of-const-type-qualifier.patch>
> <0003-JavaScript-Don-t-set-token-position-information-agai.patch>
> <0004-JavaScript-Create-proper-scope-for-tags-including-co.patch>
> <0005-JavaScript-Fix-recognizing-functions-inside-methods.patch>
> <0006-JavaScript-Don-t-drop-the-token-after-an-unbraced-if.patch>
> <0007-JavaScript-Simplify-parseJfFile-code-no-functional-c.patch>
> <0008-JavaScript-Properly-consume-closing-brace-after-a-bl.patch>
> <0009-JavaScript-Fix-some-unterminated-statement-corner-ca.patch>
> <0010-JavaScript-Lowercase-object-isn-t-a-keyword.patch>
> <0011-JavaScript-Fix-parsing-non-method-properties.patch>
> <0012-JavaScript-Create-class-tag-for-variable-with-childr.patch>
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