Doxygen misrendering macro type as a public member function

I am using a type macro list(type)

that expands to dynamic type [ list_of_type

] as shown below:

main snippet

...
#define list(type) force_append_macro(list_of_,type)
...
typedef struct _improperlydocumented
{
  list(char_ptr) *words;
}improperlydocumented;
...

      

        
        
        
      

    

Problem

doxygen incorrectly renders this type [ list(char_ptr)

] as a public member function (instead of member data).

environmental information

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

$ doxygen --version
1.8.6

      

        
        
        
      

    

doxygen wizard generates the following output:

doxygen -g

my code / config:

doxygen.config

PROJECT_NAME           = "doxytest"
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = ./build/docs
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C  = YES

TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT   = YES

HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES       = YES
SHOW_NAMESPACES        = NO
INPUT                  = ./
FILE_PATTERNS          = *.h *.c

GENERATE_HTML          = YES
GENERATE_LATEX         = NO

ENABLE_PREPROCESSING   = YES
MACRO_EXPANSION        = NO
EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF     = YES
SEARCH_INCLUDES        = YES
INCLUDE_PATH           = 
INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS  = 
PREDEFINED             =
EXPAND_AS_DEFINED      = 

      

        
        
        
      

    

Note: I tried the installation EXPAND_AS_DEFINED = list

; with the same output as below.

list.h

#ifndef __list__
#define __list__

typedef struct 
{
  int capacity,
      count,
      objsize,
      xprate;
  void *data;
}glist_t;

/* allow list types to be defined (as wrappers around generic_list) */
#define append_macro(a,b) a ## b
#define force_append_macro(a,b) append_macro(a,b)
#define declare_named_list_type(name,type) typedef union\
                                           {struct force_append_macro(_template_,name)\
                                             {\
                                               int capacity,\
                                               count,\
                                               objsize,\
                                               xprate;\
                                               type *data;\
                                             }template;\
                                             glist_t ls;\
                                           }name
#define declare_list_type(type) declare_named_list_type(force_append_macro(list_of_,type),type)
#define list(type) force_append_macro(list_of_,type)

typedef char * char_ptr;
declare_list_type(char_ptr);

/*!
 * This object is improperly documented.
 *
 * Issue is that the list(char_ptr) is treated as a member function instead of a type..
 */

typedef struct _improperlydocumented
{
  list(char_ptr) *words;
}improperlydocumented;

#endif

      

        
        
        
      

    

doxygen output

incorrectly documented construct reference

---

#include

Public functions of members

---

list (char_ptr)*words

      

        
        
        
      

    

Detailed description

---

This object is not properly documented.

The problem is that the list (char_ptr) is treated as a member function instead of a type ..

Question

How can I fix doxygen output for a document words

as element data (not a public member function)?

PROJECT_NAME           = "doxytest"
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = ./build/docs
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C  = YES

TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT   = YES

HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES       = YES
SHOW_NAMESPACES        = NO
INPUT                  = ./
FILE_PATTERNS          = *.h *.c

GENERATE_HTML          = YES
GENERATE_LATEX         = NO

ENABLE_PREPROCESSING   = YES
MACRO_EXPANSION        = YES
EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF     = YES|NO **
SEARCH_INCLUDES        = YES
INCLUDE_PATH           = 
INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS  = 
PREDEFINED             =
EXPAND_AS_DEFINED      = list

      

        
        
        
      

    

** tried both YES and NO with all other settings the same (asterisks not included;)

PROJECT_NAME           = "doxytest"
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = ./
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C  = YES

TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT   = YES

HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES       = YES
SHOW_NAMESPACES        = NO
INPUT                  = ./
FILE_PATTERNS          = *.h *.c

GENERATE_HTML          = YES
GENERATE_LATEX         = NO

ENABLE_PREPROCESSING   = YES
MACRO_EXPANSION        = YES
EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF     = NO
SEARCH_INCLUDES        = YES
INCLUDE_PATH           = 
INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS  = 
PREDEFINED             =

      

        
        
        
      

    

still doesn't expand the list (char_ptr) as expected. without changing the output

I tried to replicate a working script (discussed below) to windows, copy + paste above the config and list.h files: