Visual Studio Code doesn't “Find all references” in #define and macros

Question

Visual Studio Code doesn't see references in #defines or macros, but Visual Studio does. Is there a setting that I don't see, that enables this?

[EDIT] To show that Visual Studio (IDE) does resolve the #define reference, I took another screenshot.

Answer 1

Visual Studio Code (especially the C/C++ Extension) does a good job. Sometimes a reference cannot be resolved, in that case a restart or clearing/resetting the intellisense cache helps. But it could be also a configuration error.

In, File -> Preferences -> Settings

• in the field 'Search settings', type include. Control every entry found.

Or

[CTRL] + [SHIFT] + P

• C/C++: Rescan Workspace
• C/C++: Reset IntelliSense Database

Addendum

I realized it a little too late but like i mentioned it in my comment below, you have a misconception.

Analog to your problem:

char *FOO = "bar";
int bar = 1;

I don't think you expect the string literal "bar" to be a reference to the variable int bar ?

Well, in your case #define FOO bar , bar is just a literal and has no relation to the variable bar in your main function.

I previously thought, that you have defined bar somewhere else and Visual Studio Code couldn't resolve it, but that's not the case.