unable to find function definition

Jay Aurabind jay.aurabind at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 08:56:34 EDT 2016


On 26 April 2016 at 16:15, Silvan Jegen <me at sillymon.ch> wrote:
> Am 2016-04-26 10:50, schrieb Gadre Nayan:
>>
>> Ctags can help. Ctags -R on the entire source.
>
>
> In the Kernel Makefile there is actually a target for this. It's called
> either 'tags' or 'tag' so
>
> make tags [or tag]
>
> should create the ctag file for you.

I use ctags with vim. Mostly it takes me to declaration of the
function pointer. Then i go grep for that function and look for its
assignment. I was wondering if there is some plugin or script which
can find assignments to such function pointers.

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Silvan
>



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Thanks and Regards,
Aurabindo J



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