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31.0.50; Improving *-change-functions notifications

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 78221 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78221: 31.0.50; Improving *-change-functions notifications
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 19:42:15 +0100

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Stupid auto-correct:

 and -> same
 blue -> built-in

João Távora

On Sun, May 4, 2025, 19:40 João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2025, 19:12 Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>> >> The right tool to find these is cflow, combined with grep and awk (or
>> >> python or perl or whatever) to search and filter cflow's output.  I've
>> >> used these before.
>> >
>> > Do you happen to remember the magic incantation to let `cflow` process
>> > our sources correctly?  I tried the rule below and the errors file
>> > suggests that the preprocessing is done correctly (it's full of
>> > complaints but only about redefinitions), yet the result doesn't include
>> > any info about the functions called by `insert_1_both` or
>> > `Fput_text_property` (to take two randomly sampled cases of interest).
>>
>> I use Clangd + Eglot + eglot-supplements if I have questions about who
>> call whom.
>>
>> With clangd 20 one can display incoming and outgoing call trees. Only
>> inconvenience is that one has to expand nodes in the tree manually
>> because nodes are created on demand via LSP. And this of course only
>> sees what's compiled in.
>>
>
> I was going to suggest mostly the and, except you don't need "eglot
> supplements" since call hierarchies (and type, too) are blue in Eglot for
> some months. See the manual of you're interested.
>
> I clangd sees anything that compile_commands.json mentions, it doesn't
> actually need to be or have been compiled.
>
> Expanding node by node makes sense to me, as huge swaths of the graph
> (which is sometimes cyclic) are uninteresting.
>
> João
>
>>

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