Re: C++ qualified method names

[Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> In the C++ method below:
>
>   void
>   regcache::raw_supply_integer (int foo)
>   {
>     whatever (foo);
>   }
>
> invoking "M-: (c-defun-name) RET" produces "raw_supply_integer".  Why
> does it exclude the class qualification?  Is there a way to have that
> included?  This is important e.g. when producing a ChangeLog entry for
> such methods.

This is a good question that opens a can of worms.

What if the clasess is in a namespace? Do you want to include the
namespace, too? …the whole chain of namespaces up to the root? What if
some of them are inline namespaces?

What if the method is overloaded on argument types? …on method
cv-qualifiers and ref-qualifiers?

What if the thing on which (c-defun-name) is a function template? …a
class template? …an explicit specialization? …a partial
specialization?