Source Insight 3.5 shows "Parse Too complex" for a .c file

Question

everyone. I'm reading the Wireshark source code these days. After importing all wireshark sources into Source Insight 3.50.0072, I found that several .c files can't be parsed correctly. The left "Symbol Window" can't display the local symbols, with a error shows "Parse Too complex in Packet.c(epan)". The file size is not the cause, because many bigger files can be parsed correctly. Also I am using the Git tool to download the Wireshark source trunk and have sucessfully compiled it, so the code is ok. I have tried several versions of Source Insight. Unfortunately they share the same problem.

The web page of the epan/packet.c source code is: packet.c

The Tsharp.c file has the same problem with the symbol window. So I doubt if this is a bug of Source Insight? How to solve this? Thx.

Answer 1

Some other source code processing tools, with names such as "GCC", "Clang", "Microsoft Visual Studio", "Oracle Studio", "HP aCC", etc., don't seem to have a problem with that file, so I rather strongly believe that this is a deficiency of Source Insight, even if it's not technically a "bug" (perhaps they just have some hardwired limit in the program, so that it's "by design").

And given the number of "Fix: C/C++ ... parsing ..." items in their change notes, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that it's Yet Another Bug.

How to solve this? File a bug with Source Dynamics and tell them you won't buy any more licenses until they fix it, and use some other tool in the interim.

Answer 2

It is because your code is not properly intended.if you are working on git.do git checkout -- .this will bring the files to the symbol window in source insight.

Answer 3

Options >> Preferences >> Languages >> Project Specific Conditions >> Scan Files >> Ok >> Ok

You will get a dialog box stating -

"You have changed parsing options. Do you want to re-parse ..." .. Click "Yes"

The issue will be solved.