Re: [Ctags] Exuberant Ctags problem with extern ... INIT

[Darren H. <dar...@te...>]

Long, long, ago, on Wed, 28 Nov 2001, James A Paget wrote:

> > > ...in the application I am working on, Exuberant Ctags fails to
> > > find a few of the tags.  The problem occurs in files such as
> > > include.h, listed below:
> > >
> > > #ifdef ALLOCATE
> > > #define extern
> > > #define INIT(A) = (A)
> > > #else
> > > #define INIT(A)
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > extern int unfound INIT(0);
> > >
> > > I have tried to get ctags to include unfound, but to no avail.  Here
> are
> > > two approaches I tried, neither of which resulted in a tag for
> "unfound":
> > >
> > > ctags -f - -I INIT== include.h
> 
> > This works for me. I do not know why this does not work for you.
> > I put the above text exactly into a file and ran it exactly as you
> > indicated.
> 
> I've tried this using Exuberant Ctags 5.1 on Windows 2000 and it still
> does not work.

You are indeed correct about this not working. When I look at the
code, there is no way this could work (e.g. -I only works for name
replacement, not for symbol replacement). Apparently I was dreaming
when I thought I had tried this because it certainly doesn't work
now. I claim senility as a defense.

-- 
Darren Hiebert <da...@hi...>
http://darren.hiebert.com