Re: [Doxygen-users] C++ Anonymous Structure Identification (XML Output)

[Adrian M N. <gr...@gm...>]

Hi,

Doxygen's xmlgen ignores anonymous scopes/compounds/members purposefully.


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On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Richard Damon <Ri...@da...> wrote:
> On 7/15/16 7:27 PM, CareyG wrote:
>> I have created a simple union as follows:
>>
>> #ifndef _ANONUNION_H
>> #define _ANONUNION_H
>>
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> ///@brief Anonymous Union example.
>> namespace AnonUnion
>> {
>> #endif
>>
>>       ///@brief Create a typename for our union.
>>       typedef union {
>>               ///@brief A short followed by two characters.
>>               struct {
>>                       short s;        ///<A short.
>>                       char ch1;       ///&lt;A single character.
>>                       char ch2;       ///&lt;Another character.
>>               };
>>
>>               ///@brief Structure as an unsigned long.
>>               unsigned long ul;
>>       } Example;
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> }
>> #endif
>>
>> #endif
>>
>> When I process this file, called AnonUnion.h I get the usual output files.
>> In particular, the index file looks like:
> <snipped>
>> What I would like to know is how to identify that s, ch1 and ch2 are part of
>> the anonymous structure and that ul1 and the anonymous structure are part of
>> the union.
>>
>> I need to know this information to reconstruct the parsed input as part of a
>> documentation package I am creating using an automated tool.
>>
>> I noticed that several other people have had similar questions over the
>> years but none of them had a satisfactory answer that enables me to solve
>> this problem.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Carey
> I don't see any mention of the anonymous struct in the xml, which might
> not be that surprising as doxygen doesn't have anything to say about
> this struct since it is totally anonymous.
>
> You probably don't want to give it a member name, as that would require
> a lot of changes in the code, but perhaps if you gave it a struct tag,
> you might get doxygen to note its existence, and that shouldn't change
> how you use it.
>
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