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[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ted,

> The reason why it's useful is that it's much more likely to find
> relevant lines of code by using "grep st_size *.[ch]".  If you grep
> for "size", there will be way too many false matches.

True, but hasn't static analysis come on since then?  I don't use them,
but tools like http://ffevotte.github.io/clang-tags/ build on clang's
work to allow queries like finding all mentions of st_size AFAIK.
They'll even cope with two different struct definitions with a st_size
kicking about and use the one you give as a seed reference.

I'm surprised with things like DWARF in ELF that compilers weren't used
to generate a super `ctags' longer ago.  We had cscope, that was Bell
Labs IIRC.  And then there's been GNU GLOBAL, GNU's idutils, ...

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Cheers, Ralph.
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