Ping: etags patch

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Tue Mar 18 01:02:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:

>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-02/msg01225.html

Jason> This seems backwards to me.  The point of creating cp/TAGS is
Jason> to get (more or less) only the symbols in cc1plus.  Your patch
Jason> means that when I ask for a symbol, it will search the sources
Jason> for all the frontends, not just the one I'm interested in.

I hadn't thought of the idea of having the subdir TAGS file include
the parent TAGS file by reference.  That's a creative idea.

I've been using `make TAGS SUBDIRS=java' instead.

Tom



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