Feature request: Call Hierarchy

[svenefftinge]

A call hierarchy of a function invocation is a very useful tool to quickly navigate in code. In VSCode I find my self using "Find Reference" repeatedly to do what I do with a call hierarchy in IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ).

UI-wise I think it could fit nicely with how "Find References" is done, but of course we would need to have a tree on the right hand side and the labels need to display the reference containing function definitions.

Conceptually it is close to a type hierarchy, which is requested in #15533.

[hoffmael]

Adding my vote to this one. This would be my number 1 most important missing feature and use it daily in eclipse to navigate and understand the structure of a large code base. I can live without find all references feature and use global text search with whole word option instead.

[hualet]

This feature is really necessary for people like me who need to browse source code of multiple open source projects.

[sandipanbiswas]

It would be super beneficial especially for users coming from eclipse,intellij background.

[jrieken]

@hualet @sandipanbiswas FYI we ignore comments in the sprit of "+1", "me too", "This is needed" etc but go for up votes (:+1:) on the descriptions of this item. Please refrain from adding these comments because it generates a lot of noise to the project and we spend time reading these comments instead of getting actual coding work done. Thanks

[thernstig]

@jrieken Have you had any progress on this?

[iradiohead]

anynews

[thernstig]

For those in interested in this, I think we can stop asking for news on this for a while as I found this comment from 2018-08-06:
microsoft/vscode-cpptools#16 (comment)

No news. We haven't started working on this yet. We plan to implement IntelliSense-based Go to Definition and Find All References before a Call Hierarchy, all of which requires implementing a multi-translation unit IntelliSense (our currently one is only one translation unit at a time).

EDIT: as per @svenefftinge's reply, the above comment might only be related to the c/c++ extension.

[svenefftinge]

@thernstig I think that comment is related to the c/c++ extension not generally to VS Code.