Cscoping Linux Kernel Code

quantumlight · 02-06-2016, 05:45 PM

Hi, I was wondering, when large code bases such as Linux has a macro that declares something as ENTRY(name), how should I search for it in cscope? I tried to type ENTRY(name) into "Find this text string", but for some reason cscope does not understand the symbols "(" or ")". Does anyone know if they have to have special prefixes of some sort? I tried escaping with '\' already.

Thanks.

rtmistler · 02-08-2016, 07:20 AM

I have used cscope and it's great once you set it up. I just don't bother much since I change code baselines so much. Either case, I think it just uses a regex to find things. Therefore in my eyes, I'd use something like:

Code:

$ find . -name "*.c" -exec grep "ENTRY(name)" {} /dev/null \;