Etags frustration/confusion

Howdy folks, I've been struggling with the behaviour of etags.el for quite some time now, and I'm keen to understand what the problem is! Given the following; foo.hpp: typedef unsigned long uint32; foo.cpp: #include "foo.hpp" uint32 blah() { return 123; } int main(void) { blah(); return 0; } 1) I do etags *. 2) "xemacs -vanilla" (xemacs-21.5b16, cygwin) 3) Do a tags search for uint32 4) I get back uint32 blah() This is plainly incorrect. There are two potential matches in the TAGS file (asciified for your viewing pleasure); uint32 blah(^?2,20 and typedef unsigned long uint32;^?uint32^A1,0 the first entry is being found, and the second entry, which contains ^?uint32^A (some type of typedef signifier?) is not getting given preference. Am I way off-target here? Is this expected behaviour? Regards, Nick