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External global variables parsing problem in C project [message #801278]

Sat, 18 February 2012 05:41

Roger M

Messages: 2
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

I am new to CDT, and just find this IDE works very good with my project, thanks all the contributors. But I have a problem about external global variables parsing.

If the key word "extern" is outside of a function, parsing is fine.

//in a.c
int foo;

//in b.c
extern  int foo;
void somefunc()
{
    foo = 1; //works fine for eclipse
}

But if "extern" is inside a function (I know it's very ugly coding style, but I cannot change it, enormous such examples in code), seems eclipse will take it as a local variable. That's very inconvenient when I have to search the references of a global variable.

//in a.c
int foo;

//in b.c
void somefunc()
{
    //some code here
    {
        extern  int foo;
        foo = 1; //eclipse takes foo as local variable, cannot be correctly parsing
    }
}

Any solution for this? I love this IDE, it's free but very powerful for C/C++. But if I cannot get this problem solved, I have to give it up.

Environment: Windows XP SP3 + CDT Version: 8.0.0.201109151620

[Updated on: Sat, 18 February 2012 07:30]

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