Re: Xcode 3.0 editor function popup not showing functions.
Re: Xcode 3.0 editor function popup not showing functions.
- Subject: Re: Xcode 3.0 editor function popup not showing functions.
- From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:24:03 -0800
On 11/12/07, Chris Espinosa <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Andy Wiese wrote:
>
> > In Xcode 3.0, the function list popup in the editor no longer shows
> > our function definitions. It does show macro definitions and
> > function declarations. Any idea why this might happen?
> >
> > We generally turn off spotlight on these machines--it seems unlikely
> > that Xcode 3.0 uses spotlight in this way, but it is a one thought
> > that occurred to me. (Not easy to test since turning it on will
> > result in a long overdue file indexing that no one wants to wait for.)
> >
> > Our function definitions have a slightly unusual format, but not
> > that unusual, and if the parser couldn't handle it, I would expect
> > declarations to also fail.
> >
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated!
> >
> The editor's parser is not the same as the compiler's, as it's in a
> physically different piece of code (Xcode vs. gcc) and is called
> hundreds of thousands of times in real-time while editing instead of
> once per file while compiling. There are always going to be idioms
> that the compiler understands, especially in older source
> compatibility modes (e.g. K&R-style declarations), that the source
> scanner won't understand.
>
> Filing a Radar report at http://bugreporter.apple.com with a copy of
> the source file that's confusing the editor's parser is the best way
> to address this.
*dreams of the day that LLVM can be used to unify this*
-Shawn
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