From: Winston <wbe@psr.com>
To: 28403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug?
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 18:40 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201709092240.v89MeFUo014854@psr.com> (raw)
[Emacs 25.2; it looks (to me) like a regexp match pattern issue in
xref.el, not an O/S issue.]
Today I noticed the message about find-tag being (supposedly)
obsoleted by xref-find-definitions as of Emacs version 25.1, so I tried
the new command. Unfortunately, the new one failed completely on an
entire class of function definitions.
After some experimenting, it appears that the problem may be that
xref-find-definitions only works when the function definition is of the
form: name spacing* '('.
The C code in question uses macros around function arguments in its
definitions. E.g.,
name _ARGS1(type,variable)
find-tag (and etags) work just fine with that, and such function
definition lines appear in the TAGS file (as they should), but
xref-find-definitions fails to find such function tags, saying instead
"No definitions found for: name".
Changing the function definition line to
name (type variable)
as a test, re-running etags, and reloading TAGS, xref-find-definitions
found the tag and went to it.
So, xref-find-definitions is not yet a complete replacement for
find-tag. Since etags puts such lines in TAGS and xref-find-definitions
is unable to match up the name with the tag, it looks like a bug /
deficiency in xref-find-definitions.
-WBE
next reply other threads:[~2017-09-09 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-09 22:40 Winston [this message]
2017-09-09 22:58 ` bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug? Drew Adams
2017-09-09 23:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-10 2:50 ` bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions Winston
2017-09-10 9:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-10 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 21:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11 8:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 23:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-13 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 12:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-14 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 0:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-19 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 14:52 ` Winston
2017-09-10 18:27 ` Winston
2017-09-10 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 19:06 ` Winston
2017-09-10 19:10 ` Winston
2017-09-10 20:12 ` Winston
2017-09-11 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 21:19 ` Winston
2017-09-10 21:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11 3:19 ` Winston
2017-09-11 4:05 ` Winston
2017-09-11 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11 4:11 ` Winston
2017-09-11 5:02 ` Winston
2017-09-11 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:37 ` Winston
2017-09-14 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
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