Melvin Vermeeren

Perhaps recent PR #501 will help understand Breathe a bit, I think adding a `:sections:` for other directives for cover more specific special use cases like the one you currently...

Probably relevant: https://github.com/michaeljones/breathe/issues/531#issuecomment-628766147

Not sure what you mean here exactly. I must admit I haven't used `extern` in quite a while and don't remember if it shows up correctly with Breathe/Sphinx.

Yeah indeed there is nothing at all in the XML regarding `extern`, I tried some searching in the Doxygen docs and issue tracker but can't seem to find anything about...

No change when it comes to `extern` with Doxygen 1.8.18, this should be fixed upstream first I suppose.

When this issue is handled the thread from https://github.com/michaeljones/breathe/pull/524#discussion_r422671974 should also be handled, which is about `create_function_signature()` in `directives.py`.

@jakobandersen At a glance i would think this is a problem at the Sphinx side, can you share thoughts?

Fyi, I just closed #316, assuming it is resolved. As noted above it was a tad vague, this one is not. It is likely Breathe still mangles the declaration. Leaving...

This might be fixed with #512, released in Breathe v4.17.0. Note that you also need Sphinx 3.x for recent Breathe versions. Could someone try and post results?

This might be fixed with #512, released in Breathe v4.17.0. Note that you also need Sphinx 3.x for recent Breathe versions. Could someone try and post results?