Question

I am new to Linux development and I have to work with Mono project on Linux. I have the following function declaration:

static MonoString *ves_icall_System_MonoType_getFullName (MonoReflectionType *object, gboolean full_name,
                                   gboolean assembly_qualified)

{
    MonoDomain *domain = mono_object_domain (object);
    ...

I would like to find the definition of MonoReflectionType and the implementation of function mono_object_domain. How do I use grep and find to do this with two separate bash commands? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Grep and find can do it but I think they’re no the best tool for it. You’d be better off using ctags: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/.

Do this from the top level directory of your project:

$ ctags -R *
$ vi -t MonoReflectionType

I hope you’re familiar with vi though 😉