Re: which-function deficiency in C mode caused by imenu

[Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org>]

> * Richard Stallman <ezf@tah.bet> [2006-06-24 04:31:26 -0400]:
>
>     which-function (and thus which-function-mode) does not determine the
>     "function name" correctly in the following common cases:
>
>     typedef struct foo {
>       int bar;
>
> Since which-function-mode uses the results of imenu, I think the first
> step is to see whether imenu parses that wrong.  Could you do that?

imenu produces largely garbage:

(("*Rescan*" . -99) ("strerror" . #<marker at 1229 in util.h>)
("DEBUG_WARN" . #<marker at 1307 in util.h>) ("int" . #<marker at 5029
in util.h>) ("int" . #<marker at 5071 in util.h>) ("int" . #<marker at
5113 in util.h>) ("int" . #<marker at 5155 in util.h>) ("void"
. #<marker at 5197 in util.h>) ("member" . #<marker at 5235 in util.h>)
("merge_sort" . #<marker at 5462 in util.h>) ("heap_sort" . #<marker at
5532 in util.h>) ("mapl" . #<marker at 6121 in util.h>))

for the file <http://www.podval.org/~sds/data/util.h>

specifically,

typedef struct list_t {
  struct list_t *next;
  void *data;
} List_t;

is not represented.

>     typedef struct {
>       int bar;
>       char* baz;
>     } foo_t;
>
> That is surely hopeless.

trivially handled:
no id after struct => forward-sexp to skip over {} and get the next id.

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