13812 - RFE: Identifier search doesn't work for #defined symbols

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

Blue sky: it would be great if lxr identifier searches also worked for symbols
which were #defined.  For example, kCharsetAliasCID is treated like an
identifier in code that references it, but Identifier Search doesn't find it
since it comes from a #define.

Comment 1

[Dawn Endico]

there's a new version of lxr in the works that should make it easier to plug
in stuff like this. see http://lxr.linux.no/ for more details. I'll wait till
that version is done and I upgrade to it before I do anything like this.

Comment 2

[timeless]

eww.
static NS_DEFINE_CID(kCharsetAliasCID, NS_CHARSETALIAS_CID);

that's evil. we can do two things:
a. treat items that appear |(item,| as tokens
b. pull in a complete c++ processor and require a complete build environment
(which is really unreasonable).

I'm willing to do (a) for mxr, Brad how does the other lxr fair on this specific
case?

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 4

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Reassigning all LXR bugs assigned to [e-mail] to the default LXR owner (sorry Bear!)

We aren't actively working on these (if that's wrong, please reassign to yourself/a real person). 

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

mxr is gone, mass closing.
https://searchfox.org/ is a much better alternative.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/562f30a76a04
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/13812: add ETP category for redirect trackers (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/15139)