Hi Alan, The fix works great. Thank you! 2018-08-26 8:25 GMT-03:00 Alan Mackenzie : > Hello, Mauro, hello, Eli. > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 20:37:07 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:24:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > From: Mauro Aranda > > > > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 17:18:58 -0300 > > > > > Hello. I'm sending this report here because I tested in GNU Emacs > 26.1.50 and the problem is not present. If > > > > it belongs to the CC Mode mailing list, please let me know. > > > > > I run: emacs -Q and visit a C file. > > > > > Inside a function that doesn't return a pointer, > c-display-defun-name works just fine. Example: > > > > > int > > > > dummy_returnint(int ret) > > > > { > > > > return ret; > > > > } > > > > > Minibuffer displays: dummy_returnint > > > > > But when the function returns a pointer, c-display-defun-name fails > to display the function name in the > > > > minibuffer. Example: > > > > > int * > > > > dummy_returnpointertoint(int *ret) > > > > { > > > > return ret; > > > > } > > > > > Minibuffer displays nothing > > > > Confirmed. Alan, could you please take a look at this? > > > Yes, certainly. I've worked out a patch for Mauro's failure case (with > > the function's type being a pointer). > > > Additionally, I've found a couple of edge cases which currently aren't > > working right: > > > struct foo bar = {0, 0}; > > > returns "struct foo" on C-c C-z. It ought to return "bar"; > > > struct foo {int a; int b} bar = {0, 0}; > > > also ought to return "bar". > > > It shouldn't be too much work to fix these two, too. I hope to have this > > done by tomorrow (European time) or, at the latest, on Sunday. > > I've committed a fix for this to master. It was a bit trickier than I'd > anticipated. > > Mauro, would you please test the fix with your real source code and > either confirm to me that the problem has indeed been fixed, or tell me > where it's still failing. Thanks! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >