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From: "Richard F Weber" <rfweber@link.com>
To: Thomas Stroesslin <thomas.stroesslin@epfl.ch>
Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Xref and find declaration of variables
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEEF30F.6050805@link.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105011800580.28286-100000@mantrasun3.epfl.ch>

Don't know if it's a problem persay with SourceNavigator as compared to 
the C-Parser itself not registering the proper variable & keeping track 
of the scope of the current variable that's being worked with.

However, this could explain some of the hang-ups I've been having with 
the Ada Parser if the database back-end doesn't do associations correctly.

--Rich

Thomas Stroesslin wrote:

>consider the following "project":
>
>myfile.c :
>
>int myglobalvar;
>int myfunc(int myarg) {
>  int mylocalvar;
>  int myvar;
>
>  myvar = 1;
>  mylocalvar = 1;
>  myarg = 1;
>  myglobalvar=1;
>}
>
>myotherfile.c :
>
>int myvar; // which is global
>...
>
>I am working on myfile.c and try to find out things about my variables:
>
>1) find declaration of myvar on the assignment line -> leads me to myvar
>     of myotherfile.c (don't you have scope info in the db?)
>
>2) same as 1) for mylocalvar
>   -> doesn't find anything, doesn't report error -> does nothing!
>
>3) same as 1) for myarg
>   -> same as 2)
>
>4) myglobalvar referred by -> finds nothing
>
>5) myvar or mylocalvar or myarg referred by in function myfunc()
>   -> same as 4
>
>
>all these features are available in sniff+. IMHO, they are among the top
>10 most importand code analysis features (the other 5 are working in
>sourcenavigator, good stuff)
>
>do you plan to include such features in future releases of
>sourcenavigator? If so, when - roughly - can I expect them to be
>implemented?
>
>cheers,
>tom
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-01 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-01  9:10 Thomas Stroesslin
2001-05-01 10:32 ` Richard F Weber [this message]
2001-05-02  4:33   ` Thomas Stroesslin
2001-05-02 11:28     ` Ian Roxborough
2001-05-03  0:15       ` Thomas Stroesslin
2001-05-02 12:43     ` Mo DeJong
2001-05-01 10:52 ` Mo DeJong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-30  5:45 Thomas Stroesslin

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