bug#24038: etags missing tag for static prototypes in header file

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 24038 + notabug
close 24038
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:39:08 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
>> From: 312 <moan1223@163.com>
>>
>> I found etags fails to create some tags for static method in header file. Is 
>> this a known issue.
>>
>> for example:
>>
>> etags NestedNameSpecifier.h
>>
>> lines between 100 and 162 is ignored, those are all static prototype.
>> Don¡¯t know why this happened.
>
> Thank you for your report.
>
> What is ignored are not static methods, but any method that is not
> in-line, i.e. for which you have only the declaration
> (a.k.a. "prototype") in the header file, without the implementation.
> For example, this method is also missing:
>
>   /// \brief Determine what kind of nested name specifier is stored.
>   SpecifierKind getKind() const;
>
> although it isn't declared 'static'.
>
> The reason is that etags by default doesn't tag declarations, on the
> assumption that the user wants to see the definitions of the methods,
> not their prototypes.  If you want declarations included, you need to
> invoke etags with the --declarations option.  (That will also tag
> global variables, so if you don't want that, use --no-globals as
> well.)
>
> IOW, this is not a bug, but the expected behavior.

Eli indicates above that this is expected behaviour.  I'm therefore
closing this as notabug.

If that's incorrect, please reopen.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas