can't figure out what's wrong with ctag regex for assembly macro extraction - ctags

Question

This is part of an assembly code (u-boot, arch/arm/include/debug/8250.S)
.macro addruart, rp, rv, tmp
ldr \rp, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS
ldr \rv, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT
.endm
I wanted to extrac tags for this type of macro defintion. So I referred to How to write .ctags file for assembly extention?
But somehow my trial doesn't work.
I tried all these commands below but all failed to show the tag (addruart).
Suppose this 8250.S file is under /tmp and contains only those 4 lines. And actually there are two tabs for indentation of each line. and between .macro and adduart is a tab too.
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro[\t ]+\(([a-zA-Z_0-9]+)\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro[\t ][\t ]*\([a-zA-Z_0-9]+\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro[\t ][\t ]*\([a-zA-Z_0-9][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro[\t ]\([a-zA-Z_0-9][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro\t\([a-zA-Z_0-9][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro\([a-zA-Z_0-9][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro\([a-zA-Z_0-9][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$
How should I do it?
my ctags version :
Exuberant Ctags 5.9~svn20110310, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
Addresses: <dhiebert#users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex

Answer 1

ckim#ckim-ubuntu:~/U-BOOT/u-boot$ ctags --regex-Asm='/\.macro[\t ]+\(([a-zA-Z_0-9]+)\)/\1/m,macro/' -o - /tmp/8250.S
This should be:
--regex-Asm='/\.macro[\t ]+([a-zA-Z_0-9]+)/\1/m,macro/'
If you don't want to tune the regex patterns, you can replace your ctags with another implementation.
Universal Ctags (https://ctags.io) is an unofficial fork of Exuberant Ctags.
The latest u-ctags recognizes macro definitions defined with gas's syntax.
You don't have to add regex options for extracting them.
$ cat /tmp/foo.S
cat /tmp/foo.S
.macro addruart, rp, rv, tmp
ldr \rp, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS
ldr \rv, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT
.endm
$ ./ctags --options=NONE -o - /tmp/foo.S
./ctags --options=NONE -o - /tmp/foo.S
ctags: Notice: No options will be read from files or environment
addruart /tmp/foo.S /^.macro addruart, rp, rv, tmp$/;" m
ldr /tmp/foo.S /^ldr \\rp, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS$/;" l
ldr /tmp/foo.S /^ldr \\rv, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT$/;" l
ldr is extracted unexpectedly. I have no idea how to fix this.