Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] tags: Unify emacs and exuberant rules

From: Michal Marek
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 16:51:48 EST


Dne 4.12.2015 v 16:26 Michal Marek napsal(a):
> The emacs rules were constantly lagging behind the exuberant ones. Use a
> single set of rules for both, to make the script easier to maintain.
> The language understood by both tools is basic regular expression with
> some limitations, which are documented in a comment. To be able to store
> the rules in an array and easily iterate over it, the script requires
> bash now. In the exuberant case, the change fixes some false matches in
> <linux/page-flags.h> and also some too greedy matches in the arguments
> of the DECLARE_*/DEFINE_* macros. In the emacs case, several previously
> not working rules are matching now. Tested with these versions of the
> tools:
>
> Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
> etags (GNU Emacs 24.5)
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Rebased onto current linux-next

I applied the series up to 7/8 to kbuild.git#misc. I will repost 8/8
with a more convincing changelog.

Michal
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