[Cscope-devel] [ cscope-Bugs-3555640 ] cscope doesn't search in header files

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Bugs item #3555640, was opened at 2012-08-09 03:47
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jerome Reybert (klubad)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cscope doesn't search in header files

Initial Comment:
When I create a database, I put both .c and .h files in it. When I want to jump to a function declaration, I would like to have the possibility to choose between the definition in the header file or the implementation in the C file.

Let say I have a simple project:
$ more test.*
::::::::::::::
test.c
::::::::::::::
int test_function() {
  return 0;
}
::::::::::::::
test.h
::::::::::::::
int test_function();

If I build a database with all the files
$ cscope -b

and I search for the test_function definition, the only choice I have is in the C file. Symbol show me well both C and header file, but in a huge project, I can't afford to search in the symbol result.

If I limit database to header file, I don't have any result:
$ cat cscope.files
test.h
$ cscope -b

In bigger projects, definitions are sometimes found in header file (if the function is only defined in header, and not in C file), but I can't reproduce this behaviour in this little example. Here, cscope don't find test_function at all.

Is it a bug or a wanted behaviour to not include header definitions (or only in some obscure circumstances) in database?

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