Re: etags and functions that return structures!

[A Soare]

> > From: A Soare <address@hidden>
> > Cc: "Emacs   Dev  [emacs-devel]" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:04:02 +0200 (CEST)
> > 
> > > > When we have a function that returns a structure with a name S, by 
> > > > searching the name of that structure (S), find-tag does not jump in all 
> > > > cases to structure's definiton, but to a function's definition that 
> > > > returns that structure.
> > > 
> > > I think this depends on the order in which etags sees the struct and
> > > the functions.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, when this happens, does "C-u M-." eventually finds the struct
> > > definition?
> > 
> > No. It jumps to another function that returns the same structure, even 
> > there is the def. of the structure somewhere. 
> 
> So you are saying that no matter how many times you press "C-u M-.",
> Emacs _never_ gets to the struct definition?  If so, please post the
> smallest test case you can come up with that shows this problem.
> 

Yes, emacs never touch that point.

I can't give example, because I do not have time to analyse the problem. Sorry.