442619 - mxr says function references are prototype definitions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, defect)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Look at any of these mxr function searches:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/ident?i=CERT_DecodeCertFromPackage
http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/ident?i=CERT_DecodeCertPackage

Observe that these pages report that there are MANY places where the 
symbol name is "Defined as a function prototype", but few or NO places
where the symbols name is referenced.  But most of these citations that 
claim to be defining the symbol as a prototype are, in fact, references.

Now contrast those results with the results from lxr.
http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/ident?i=CERT_DecodeCertFromPackage
http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/ident?i=CERT_DecodeCertPackage

lxr gets the prototype definitions and references exactly right.

I don't want to see lxr go away until mxr works as well as lxr does.
This bug is proof by example that it does not.

Comment 1

[timeless]

my guess is the = sign is being treated as a prototype hint....

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Timeless,
"the = sign"?  
Do You mean the fact that the function returns value that is 
assigned to a variable?
Surely that's rather common.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

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