Re: [Ctags-devel] function return type

[Massimo C. <ma...@em...>]

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Hi,

a little bit late but I finally found the time to check this.


Elliott Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, December 15, 2008 14:22, Massimo Cora' wrote:
>> Elliott Hughes wrote:
>>>> i'm not aware that anyone's working on it.
>> ok. I would probably put on this task. How much work do you think is
>> needed to have it implemented?
> 
> this was for C-family languages? adding the extra data and outputting it

yes it is for C-family.

> should be easy enough. the tricky bit will be actually recognizing which
> part of the input was the return type, i think. how hard that is depends
> on the language in question, and how/if its parser already distinguishes
> return types.
> 

well, shortly, on c.c you were storing only 3 tokens.
But the return type of a function was coming on the fourth.

prev3        prev2        prev1       curr
- -------      -------      -----       ------
rettype      funcname     (args)      {


increasing the number of tokens and printing out some info at the right
point made me think that maybe adding the return type of a function is a
doable thing.
Probably I'm wrong, but am I missing something?
Ok, the pointer like 'char*' were identified by 'char', but that would
really be an improvement.

I've attached a little patch against svn trunk to test this. It does not
modify the tags nor add extra logic, it just prints the supposed return
type.

regards,
Massimo



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