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

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Massimo,


Le 28/07/2013 18:54, Massimo Cora' a écrit :
> I remember that I wrote a patch against ctags to get the return type of
> a function, and that I implemented a way to get the pointer type of a
> variable in the cxx-parser, using some code from CodeLite - and a lexer.
> You can look at parser-cxx plugin.
>
> Anyway please note that currently symbol-db won't give you the pointer
> info because its ctags-backend doesn't provide it.
>
> The best choice would be to replace totally ctags in view of a clang
> based parser.

I'm interested to improve this part. I have thought about moving the 
code reading the output of ctags in its own plugin allowing to easily 
use a different backend. It will make the code of the symbol-db smaller 
and it will be easier to choose a different backend. But I'm not sure it 
worths it. Else as we use anjuta-ctags anyway, we can just improve 
anjuta-ctags. What do you think?


Regards,

Sébastien