"Find all references" Not working

[alexdima]

Moved from microsoft/vscode#17070

From @dfroze

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Version 1.7.2
Commit 7ba55c5860b152d999dda59393ca3ebeb1b5c85f
Date 2016-11-21T22:14:18.217Z
Shell 1.3.8
Renderer 52.0.2743.82
Node 6.5.0

Since the first time I installed the vscode till now (so it isn't only just recent), this feature never worked for me. It always showed an empty list. I thought that it was a cpptool problem but they never responded.
Can anyone help me with it? Do I need to configure something !?

Thank you.

[sean-mcmanus]

What extension do you have installed? I assume the C/C++ extension? You may need to set your include paths by running C/Cpp: Edit Configurations and modifying the c_cpp_properties.json.

[dfroze]

Hy @sean-mcmanus. Thank you for the fast reply.
Yes I have C/C++ extension.
I have a big project that contains a lot of *.h in include folders and src folders, how should I set this in json? Do I have to add all possible paths to it? What about .c/.cpp files?

Also, just found the console and am seeing a lot of errors there. Not sure if there are from the extension or vscode.

Error: Error: Command failed: global --encode-path " " -xa config_data
global: unrecognized option '--encode-path'
Usage: global [-aGilnqrstTvx][-e] pattern
global -c[qrsv] prefix
global -f[anqrstvx] files
global -g[aGilnoOqtvx][-e] pattern
global -I[ailnqtvx][-e] pattern
global -P[aGilnoOqtvx][-e] pattern
global -p[qrv]
global -u[qv]
global --encode-path " " -xa config_data (exited with error code 2)

Error: Error: Command failed: global -u
Warning: 'file name.odt' ignored, because it includes blank.
Warning: 'file name.odt' ignored, because it includes blank.
Warning: 'file name.odt' ignored, because it includes blank.
Warning: 'file name.rc' ignored, because it includes blank.
Warning: 'file name.pdf' ignored, because it includes blank.
Warning: 'file name.pdf' ignored, because it includes blank.
Warning: 'file name.pdf' ignored, because it includes blank.
Segmentation fault
global -u (exited with error code 1)A.logExtensionHostMessage @ extensionHost.ts:293
extensionHost.ts:293 [Extension Host] Object

I've modified the paths from warning, they don't point to the same file.
Thank you for your help

[sean-mcmanus]

Sorry, I misunderstood your report originally. The C/C++ extension doesn't currently implement Find All References. The option shouldn't be shown for C/C++ files unless you have some other extension installed that is trying to handle it.

[dfroze]

You are right. It was an other extension.
It would be great and a really helpful to have this feature working properly.
I would like to help if possible.

[BillDenton]

Issues #404 and #388 appear to be the same.

[BillDenton]

Also seems to be the same as #361

[eddy-geek]

Is this on the roadmap? Is it technically difficult?

I feel like this highly useful navigation feature (the only approximation of "Call hierarchy" we can have for now) should be higher priority...

It's also a jarring user-experience, I spent a few minutes hitting Shift+F12 repeatedly and wondering why vscode was broken, until I found out that it worked everywhere else (python, typscript, go...) but c++.

[bobbrow]

Yes, it's on the roadmap, but it's not first in line. We can't really do this very accurately until proper intellisense is added in. The tag parser we use for autocomplete right now doesn't have any semantic knowledge of symbols. It doesn't see local variables either.

[bobbrow]

Actually, we have another issue tracking "find all references" (#15). I will close this one.