From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags failing with structure members Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:37:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83varfdb1q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <58C25BCF.4010704@gmx.at> <831su5fpx7.fsf@gnu.org> <58C3D124.1070501@gmx.at> <834lz0dpjp.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489250284 9180 195.159.176.226 (11 Mar 2017 16:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 11 17:38:00 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cmk1o-0001zY-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:38:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmk1t-0002dt-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmk1n-0002dl-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmk1j-00030i-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmk1j-00030e-7i; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1458 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cmk1i-0000hR-Ds; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:37:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Yates on Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:42:23 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212910 Archived-At: > From: John Yates > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:42:23 -0500 > Cc: martin rudalics , Emacs developers > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > They look like a beginning of a K&R style function definition: > > For many contemporary codebases support for K&R is only a liability. > Might it be possible to drop such support (at least optionally)? Even if we'd decided to drop that (and I'm not so sure we should), someone would still need to rework the humongous state machine in C_entries and consider_token (which supports all C-like languages, including C++, ObjC, Java, etc.) to get rid of that cleanly. If such a volunteer steps forward, this question will become something we (and the volunteer) should consider, yes. But until that time, simple localized changes are all we can afford, unfortunately, at least as long as I'm the only one who dares to touch etags bugs.