Charles Campbell wrote:

> Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Charles Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe I was just lucky for years, but it seemed to me that the order of
> >> tags files (left to right in the tags option) and order of tags
> >> (top-to-bottom in the tags file) was important in resolving multiple
> >> tags with the same name.  That no longer seems to be the case, which
> >> makes it hard to avoid prototypes vs the actual function from being
> >> called up as the first tag (and system prototypes, too).
> >>
> >> So -- was I just lucky, or is a deliberate change, or (hopefully) an
> >> inadvertent effect that needs fixing?
> > Maybe caused by patch 8.0.0190?  It changes the linear search for
> > duplicates to using a hash table.  You could try using the version just
> > before it and see if that makes a change.
> >
> I'm having problems with applying the patches:
> 
>  * First, patch said, starting with the very first two patches, that the
> patch appeared to be reversed, etc.
> 
>  * Not looking forward to telling patch to reverse 189 patches, I
> removed vim80/ and extracted vim-8.0.tar again to start afresh.  I then
> used patch -R .  Patch then complained that some of the patches were not
> reversed.
> 
>  * Then I decided to repeat the removal of vim80/ and extraction of
> vim-8.0 again, but this time using patch -f (which forces the patch no
> matter which way it appeared to go).  I then got a lot of hunk failures;
> vim would not compile.
> 
> I see that there's a vim-8.0.069 so I'm using that for tag testing.  vim
> v8-69 honors my priority ordering and vim v8-282 does not.
> 
> I then applied patches 70-189 and built vim successfully.  (!)  So I
> repeated tags testing: vim v8-189 honors my priority ordering.  vim
> v8-190 also honors my priority ordering.  (by "honors priority ordering"
> I mean that vim tags to the first match of multiple matches)
> 
> By bisection, the patch that introduces the problem is: patch#195.

Thanks for taking the time to figure out which patch caused the problem.
I guess that when we check for a NUL we drop the priority information.

Are you able to reproduce the problem in a simple way, so that we can
write a test for this problem?

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