Re: How can I find the definition of a structure with cscope

Le mardi 29 avril 2008 07:21:43 UTC+2, wiseker a écrit :
> In vim + cscope, we can use command ":cs find g name" to find the definition of a function or structure. But there are some problems for structures.
>
> For example, when we want to find the definition of struct device in linux kernel tree,the result is:
> # line filename / context / line
> 1 115 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c <<device>>
> struct device
> 2 32 Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c <<device>>
> static const char *device = "/dev/spidev1.1";
> 3 117 arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c <<device>>
> u32 device;
> 4 48 arch/x86/kernel/reboot_fixups_32.c <<device>>
> unsigned int device;
> 5 46 arch/x86/pci/irq.c <<device>>
> u16 vendor, device;
> 6 53 arch/x86/pci/irq.c <<device>>
> int (*probe)(struct irq_router *r, struct pci_dev *router, u16 device);\
> ......
>
> That is because: 1) there are lots of "struct device" in header files (to avoid including headers); 2) Some locale variables with same name exists.
>
> How can we avoid this and find the right definition quickly?
>
> Thanks!

I wrote a patch for vim that will sort the matches returned by cscope to put the matches that end with '{' at the top. I work on the kernel and boy this was useful. I'll be happy to share the patch if anyone is interested.

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