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mvolkar
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Posted - Aug 27 2018 :  4:19:17 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
C99 allows you to initialize individual fields of a structure using a designated initializer list as follows (example stolen from another forum post):

struct Person
{
	int height;
	int weight;
	int age;
};

int main()
{
	struct Person p = { .age = 18 };
}


What I have found is that if I select one of the identifiers in the initializer list (e.g., age in this case) and try to use the Find References feature of Visual Assist, it tells me that the symbol is unrecognized. The interesting part of this is that Goto Implementation is able to find the field in the struct definition, and Find References works from there. This seems to indicate to me that Visual Assist knows something about the identifier, but isn't properly handling it for Find References. This is obviously a minor annoyance, but I still wanted to report it. I am using Visual Assist build 2283.1 and Visual Studio 2015.

feline
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United Kingdom
18746 Posts

Posted - Aug 28 2018 :  07:04:01 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am seeing the same effect here, thank you for the clear description:

case=118748

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sean
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USA
2817 Posts

Posted - Dec 20 2019 :  2:27:21 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
case=118748 is implemented in build 2358.
https://support.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W404
http://builds.wholetomato.com/binaries/VA_X_Setup2358_0.exe
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mvolkar
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Posted - Dec 20 2019 :  3:16:15 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you for the update, I downloaded the new build and can confirm that it solves this problem in the case I originally reported. I did note, however, that there was a case in our code that still didn't seem to work correctly. Looking closer, this case is initializing an array of structs using the designated initializer method.

So to expand my previous example, the following code exhibits the same problem behavior:
struct Person
{
	int height;
	int weight;
	int age;
};

int main()
{
	struct Person p[3] =
	{
		{ .age = 18 },
		{ .age = 37 },
		{ .age = 5 }
	};
}
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sean
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USA
2817 Posts

Posted - Dec 20 2019 :  3:36:56 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sorry about that but thanks for the update. I've opened case=141667 to have it looked into.
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sean
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USA
2817 Posts

Posted - Feb 20 2020 :  11:04:22 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
case=141667 is fixed in build 2366.
https://support.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W404#2366
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mvolkar
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Posted - Feb 21 2020 :  08:24:26 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I can confirm that this appears to have addressed the problem I was seeing. Thank you.
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