Re: gtags-cscope showing wrong Function

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

Hello,
Gtags-cscope is a tool which just borrows the user interface of cscope.
Since Global has no information about the caller, it cannot show it.

Regards,
Shigio

2021年2月18日(木) 18:30 Jon Doron <arilou@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have ran into an issue with gtags-cscope where it shows the wrong
> function (aka the caller).
>
> given the following source:
>
> void foo()
> {
>         printf("hello foo\n");
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>         printf("hello world\n");
>         foo();
>         return 0;
> }
>
> After you generate gtags, when you run gtags-cscope and look for the
> symbol foo, you will get the following output:
> Symbol: foo
>
>    File  Function Line
> 0 foo.c foo       3 void foo()
> 1 foo.c foo      11 foo();          <<<<<<<<<<<
>
>
> With cscope you would see under Function the caller i.e:
> C symbol: foo
>
>    File  Function Line
> 0 foo.c foo       3 void foo()
> 1 foo.c main     11 foo();          <<<<<<<<<<<
>
> My gtags version is 6.6.3, no special configurations
>
> Is there something I need to configure in order to get the same behavior
> as cscope?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Jon.
>


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