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		metalrain on April 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code search is hard I think you need to parse the code and build AST to make good search. Even then normalizing over different aliases, may not be simple.

vladak on April 11, 2024 [–]

The question is what code. In preprocessed languages there can be lots of ifdefs and such for various environments and architectures.

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