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Avoid doubly tagging parse.y when both parse.c and parse.y are given on the command line, in either order. * etags.c (find_entries): Delete tags previously obtained from file xxx.c's #line directives when parsing file xxx.y. This is generally done for automatically generated files containing #line directives. This handles the case when xxx.y is tagged before xxx.c, and the entries of xxx.c pointing to xxx.y should be discarded. (language): Added the metasource member. Initializers changed. (invalidate_nodes): New function. (readline): Discard lines after having found a #line directive pointing to an already tagged file. This handles the case when xxx.y is tagged before xxx.c, and the entries of xxx.c pointing to xxx.y should be discarded. (fdesc): New structure for keeping track of input files. (fdesc): Remove `file' member (a string) and use instead a pointer to a file description structure. (curfile, curfiledir, curtagfname, curlang, nocharno, forced_lang): Global variables removed in favor of fdhead and curfdp, pointers to file description strucures. (longopts, main, print_help): Use the CTAGS conditional to include or exclude options that work on etags or ctags only. (process_file, find_entries, pfnote, add_node, put_entries, readline): Use fdhead and curfdp. (process_file, find_entries): Do not take an arg string, all callers changed. * etags.c (longopts, print_help, main): Test CTAGS to disallow options that are not right for either etags or ctags. * etags.c (number_len, total_size_of_entries): Define them also in CTAGS mode, because gcc does not compile all refs away.

EBNF (Extended Backus Normal Form) description of the format of the tags
file created by etags.c and interpreted by etags.el
Francesco Potorti` <[e-mail]> 2002
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FF ::= #x0c				   /* form feed */

LF ::= #x0a				   /* line feed */

DEL ::= #x7f				   /* pattern terminator */

SOH ::= #x01				   /* name terminator */

regchar ::= [^#x0a#x0c#x7f]		   /* regular character */

regstring ::= { regchar }		   /* regular string */

unsint ::= [0-9] { [0-9] }		   /* non-negative integer */



tagfile ::= { tagsection }		   /* a tags file */

tagsection ::= FF LF ( includesec | regularsec ) LF

includesec ::= filename ",include" [ LF fileprop ]

regularsec ::= filename "," [ unsint ] [ LF fileprop ] { LF tag }

filename ::= regchar regstring		   /* a file name */

fileprop ::= DEL "(" regstring ")"

tag ::= directtag | patterntag

directtag ::= DEL realposition

patterntag ::= pattern DEL [ tagname SOH ] position

pattern ::= regstring			   /* a tag pattern */

tagname ::= regchar regstring		   /* a tag name */

position ::= realposition | ","

realposition ::= "," unsint | unsint "," | unsint "," unsint