emacs: how do I use edebug on code that is defined in a macro?

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I don't even know the proper terminology for this lisp syntax, so I don't know if the words I'm using to ask the question, make sense. But the question makes sense, I'm sure.

So let me just show you. cc-mode (cc-fonts.el) has things called "matchers" which are bits of code that run to decide how to fontify a region of code. That sounds simple enough, but the matcher code is in a form I don't completely understand, with babckticks and comma-atsign and just comma and so on, and furthermore it is embedded in a c-lang-defcost, which itself is a macro. And I want to run edebug on that code.

Look:

 (c-lang-defconst c-basic-matchers-after
   "Font lock matchers for various things that should be fontified after
 generic casts and declarations are fontified.  Used on level 2 and
 higher."

   t `(;; Fontify the identifiers inside enum lists.  (The enum type
       ;; name is handled by `c-simple-decl-matchers' or
       ;; `c-complex-decl-matchers' below.
       ,@(when (c-lang-const c-brace-id-list-kwds)
           `((,(c-make-font-lock-search-function
                (concat
                 "\\<\\("
                 (c-make-keywords-re nil (c-lang-const c-brace-id-list-kwds))
                 "\\)\\>"
                 ;; Disallow various common punctuation chars that can't come
                 ;; before the '{' of the enum list, to avoid searching too far.
                 "[^\]\[{}();,/#=]*"
                 "{")
                '((c-font-lock-declarators limit t nil)
                  (save-match-data
                    (goto-char (match-end 0))
                    (c-put-char-property (1- (point)) 'c-type
                                         'c-decl-id-start)
                    (c-forward-syntactic-ws))
                  (goto-char (match-end 0)))))))

I am reading up on lisp syntax to figure out what those things are and what to call them, but aside from that, how can I run edebug on the code that follows the comment that reads ;; Fontify the identifiers inside enum lists. ?

I know how to run edebug on a defun - just invoke edebug-defun within the function's definition, and off I go. Is there a corresponding thing I need to do to edebug the cc-mode matcher code forms?

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