Re: sparse ctags

["Christopher Li" <sparse@chrisli.org>]

On 8/6/07, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like some enums grew new values and ctags didn't stay up to date.  I
> think this patch fixes that particular problem:
>
> diff --git a/ctags.c b/ctags.c
> index f5b8fc7..63f59a5 100644
> --- a/ctags.c
> +++ b/ctags.c
> @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ static void examine_symbol(struct symbol *sym)
>                 return;
>         if (sym->ident && sym->ident->reserved)
>                 return;
> +       if (sym->type == SYM_KEYWORD)
> +               return;
>
>         add_tag(sym);
>         base = sym->ctype.base_type;
> @@ -158,6 +160,8 @@ static void examine_namespace(struct symbol *sym)
>                 return;
>
>         switch(sym->namespace) {
> +       case NS_KEYWORD:
> +               return;
>         case NS_LABEL:
>                 sym->kind = 'l';
>                 break;
>

That looks good to me.

> After some further investigation, I think ctags really shouldn't look at
> SYM_PREPROCESSOR or NS_PREPROCESSOR either.  I came up with the attached
> patch, which I will apply soon unless someone shouts.  Chris?

I think SYM_PREPROCESSOR is also used by macros with NS_MACRO.
You just need to strip out the NS_PREPROCESSOR. I guess you try to
skip the symbol with NS_SYMBOL: and SYM_PREPROCESSOR at the same
time.

I am not sure about the test for "sym->type == SYM_KEYWORD",
do you see some case trigger that?

Sorry, I just find out that I get drop out from the sparse mail list
for a while and miss
a lot of interesting discussions. Blame my mail server.

>
> This still doesn't fix running ctags on multiple files; ctags seems to get
> confused in much the same way sparse does when run on multiple files: it spews
> a pile of redefinition errors.

Should make sparse able to clean up itself. I will see what I can do.

Chris