Re: Help etags parse lisp.j

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Today I found that some inline functions defined in lisp.h are not in
> src/TAGS.  For example, lispstpcpy is not there.  After some digging,
> it turned out that lines like the one below confuse etags:
>
>   extern _Noreturn void emacs_abort (void) NO_INLINE;
>
> Specifically, the very next inline function doesn't wind up in TAGS.
> The problem is that NO_INLINE part after the argument list.  These
> macros expand either to __attribute__((SOMETHING)) or to nothing;
> etags knows about __attribute__, but it cannot know about the macros
> we use for that.  The problem happens with any attribute we hide
> behind a macro, not just with NO_INLINE.

Can't etags reset its parser state after a toplevel semicolon?

Andreas.

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