Re: How to find the definition effectively

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

Hi,

At present, there might be no good method.

GLOBAL classifies all symbols into three:
o definition
o reference
o other symbol

Current GLOBAL treats struct name 'a' shown below as other symbol,

        struct a {
                int b;
        };

So, it cannot distinguish the definition and the reference.

We can modify the parser of GLOBAL to distinguish difinition and
reference. It is already in the TODO list.

[Plans for the future]
<http://www.gnu.org/software/global/plans.html>
o Pickup definitions of data type, enum name, enum value, union name
  and struct name. Finally, remove GSYMS. (gtags-parser, gtags)

This will be achieved some time.

> I want to use global and emacs to work with the Linux 2.6 kernel source.
> When I try to find the definition of list_head (it can be found in
> $linux_src/include/linux/list.h),
> I was  swamped with 1151 results including definition and references.
> So ,how to find the definition effectively?
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