makedep: Support externals alongside program units #479
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The current version of makedep uses the existence of program units (module or program) to determine whether a file contains globally accessible external functions. It incorrectly ignores files with externals it happens to contain both externals and a program unit.
We resolve this by tracking whether we are inside or outside of a program unit while parsing each line. We ignore keywords which may appear in comments, as well as tokens which may contain
function
orsubroutine
as substrings. This method is not perfect; there are cases which will incorrectly report entering a block, but this method appears sufficient for all of our known codebases.This issue was detected when attempting to parse the AM2 source. While still far from a general solution, it is sufficient to handle a few of the more challenging cases encountered in AM2.