Re: [anjuta-devel] How to get the type of member that is a pointer using symbol-db

[Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Massimo Cora' <maxcvs email it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 07/25/2013 04:26 PM, Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita wrote:
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > While testing the "create getter" feature I'm implementing[1], I
> > stumbled upon a problem: I created a pointer to a GtkWidget in the
> > private struct of a class and, when I created the getter method, the
> > created method type was "GtkWidget" instead of "GtkWidget*".
> >
> > Is there a way to correctly get the type of a member of an struct that
> > is a pointer using symbol-db?
>
> IIRC this feature was implemented and was working.
> In some ways it seems that a regression made it not working.
>
> sdb_engine_extract_type_qualifier () in symbol-db-engine-core was the
> function responsible for the type extraction.


Are you sure it has ever worked correctly? I took a look in the regex
in sdb_engine_extract_type_qualifier and it doesn't seems capable of
correctly getting the type name of pointer members.

I think that a viable approach is to scan the string (after removing
comments) between the member name and the type name to search for '*'
or '&'. Is there any problem with this approach?