tag parsing error

[jalanh11640]

Whenever I search for workplace symbols (cmd-t on my mac) I get 'No matching workspace symbols'. Some google searching suggested resetting my intellisense database. When I do that, I see the following in my C/C++ Log (loggingLevel set to 'Debug')

Parsing remaining files...
tag parsing file:
tag parsing error (this can be ignored unless symbols can't be found):
<Repeated for 118 more files>
Parsing: 119 files(s) processed
Done parsing remaining files.

Further googling seemed to indicate I should see more detailed information about what went wrong. Here's the info about the versions I'm using

Vscode: 1.72.2 (Mac app)
Remote-Ssh: 0.92.0
c/c++ extension 1.13.4 (installed on a remote Red Hat linux box) same result with pre-release version

How can I figure out what the problem/issue is?
Thanks!

[sean-mcmanus]

@jalanh11640 You can set the C_Cpp.loggingLevel to "Debug" to see more information on which files are tag parsed. UPDATE: Oops, I didn't see you already have that setting.

It sounds like you might be hitting a tag parser error that is causing symbols to not be available. Are you able to provide any sample repro code?

[sean-mcmanus]

It's possible there is some failure in creating the necessary temp files that the additional error logging is written to.

1.13.5 should have the Create Declaration / Definition feature in the right-click menu for a C/C++ document.

Are you able to provide some sample repro code?

[jalanh11640]

TelemetryList.hpp:
class CTelemetryRequestList
{
public:
CTelemetryRequestList();
~CTelemetryRequestList();
};

TelemetryList.cpp:
#include "TelemetryList.hpp"

CTelemetryRequestList::CTelemetryRequestList()
{
}

CTelemetryRequestList::~CTelemetryRequestList()
{
}

[sean-mcmanus]

Yeah, that is strange -- I don't repro the issue. I don't know what could cause a failure like this. Does it stop reproing with something simpler like class CTelemetryRequestList;? Also, you're getting the tag parse error with the header and source file?

[jalanh11640]

Yes, I'm getting the tag parse error with the header and source. If I just have 'class CTelemetryRequestList;' in my header and an empty cpp I still get the tag parse errors for both files.

[sean-mcmanus]

You might want to try running the "C/C++: Reset IntelliSense Database" command from the Command Palette, but normally that would only fix database errors.

[jalanh11640]

Thank you for taking the time to look into this. When my work schedule allows, I'm going to uninstall/clean EVERYTHING (Mac and remote) and see if that helps with anything.

At this point, vscode is mostly useable.

Thanks again

[jalanh11640]

Interesting data point.. I remoted into a different Linux box (one I'd never remoted into with vscode). The parser found most all files. There were a number of '/usr/include/boost/** files that it had problems with.. in that case it showed additional error information.

Jeff

[sean-mcmanus]

Yeah, that sounds like the expected behavior. It seems like your other Linux machine is causing some low level functionality in our tag parser to fail, but we don't know what that could be yet (apparently the error may also be causing our error failure reporting mechanism to fail or it's failing at a point in which our existing error reporting isn't designed to be able to report detailed errors). I don't recall other reports of this so it seems like something unusual.

[sean-mcmanus]

It sounds like another user may have hit this at #10224