Re: possible Global bug - not picking up symols?

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

Hello,
Could you please give me a reproduce method to understand the problem?
It would be helpful if you could describe it as concisely as possible.

Thanks,
Shigio

2020年4月30日(木) 21:26 jan <address@hidden>:
>
> (if anything below is unclear, please shout!  I will try to explain better)
> (also please acknowledge that it's been received, just so I know it's
> not got lost)
>
> Hi,
> this bug (if it is a bug) seems to have been around a long time. I can
> see a reference to something like this here, from 2007
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-global/2007-10/msg00004.html>
>
> I installed Global yesterday, as part of setting up emacs as a proper
> IDE,  and started to play. I built the tag table and the very first
> thing I did was pick a random symbol and look for it.
> Global couldn't find it, which caused me a couple of hours more
> playing and reading the manual. I still don't get it. Maybe it's me.
>
> I am also very, very rusty with C++ so I may be getting things wrong there.
>
> The project is gromacs <http://www.gromacs.org/>.
>
> The size of the project source is 43.6MB. The total size of
> gpath/grtags/gtags is 17.4MB.  The documentation implies these would
> be about the size of the original source file, but this is ~1/3rd the
> size so I'm surprised.
>
> I looked for a constructor
> "AnalysisDataPointSetRef::AnalysisDataPointSetRef". It can't find this
> or even "AnalysisDataPointSetRef" by itself. It can't seem to find a
> number of symbols.
>
> If I generate the HTML it
> AnalysisDataPointSetRef::AnalysisDataPointSetRef shows up, but without
> underlining. In fact quite a number of symbols show up without
> underlining in that source file. The following is from the HTML file
> with recognised (underlined) items made upper case.
>
> AnalysisDataFrameHeader::AnalysisDataFrameHeader
>  (int index, REAL X_, REAL dx) :
>     index_(index),
>     X_(x),
>     DX_(dx)
> {
>     GMX_ASSERT(index >= 0, "Invalid frame index");
> }
>
> Non underlined items are
> AnalysisDataFrameHeader::AnalysisDataFrameHeader, index_, index, x and
> dx. Therefore it seems not to be picking these up?
>
> Looking for these it can find the underlined ones:
>
> >>>global dx_
> gromacs_working/src/gromacs/analysisdata/dataframe.cpp
>
> but
>
> >>>global index
> (nothing)
>
>
> From the same file, another example; similar constructor but
> conventional parameters are being inconsistenly picked up. As before
> underlined items are made upper case here:
>
> AnalysisDataPointSetRef::AnalysisDataPointSetRef
>                         (const AnalysisDataFrameHeader&  HEADER,
>                   const AnalysisDataPointSetInfo& pointSetInfo,
>                   const ANALYSISDATAVALUESREF&    values)
>
> So it can see HEADER and ANALYSISDATAVALUESREF but apparently nothing else?
>
> OS is windows 2008R2.
> Global version is 6.6.3
> The project compiles cleanly so it's not been confused by syntax errors.
>
> Happy to help further.
>
> thanks
>
> jan
>


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