Subject: bug#24128: closed (Re: bug#22288: 25.0.50; Incorrect line and column number in byte-compilation warning)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 18:18:03 +0000

Your bug report

#22288: 25.1; Strange warning from byte compiler in gud.el and gdb-mi.el

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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Subject: Re: bug#22288: 25.0.50; Incorrect line and column number in byte-compilation warning
From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
To: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 18:16:58 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello Everybody.

This bug has just been fixed in master by merging in branch
scratch/correct-warning-pos.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 10:54:24 -0500, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> Hi all,

> The byte-compiler doesn't always report the right line and column numbers. For example for the following program in test.el:

> (defun test ()
>   (let (a))
>   a)

> Running M-x byte-compile-file RET test.el RET yields:

> > Compiling file /home/clement/test.el at Fri Jan  1 10:48:41 2016

> > In test:
> > test.el:2:9:Warning: reference to free variable ‘a’

> The correct warning would be

> > test.el:3:2:Warning: reference to free variable ‘a’

> Note that the following program gives the right error:

> (defun test ()
>   (let (b))
>   a)

> > test.el:3:3:Warning: reference to free variable ‘a’

> Although one might argue that it should be

> > test.el:3:2:Warning: reference to free variable ‘a’

> (that is, column 2, not 3) given that Emacs starts counting columns at 0.

> Cheers,
> Clément.

> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8)
>  of 2015-12-29 built on clem-w50-mint
> Repository revision: a21bb238ce7bcc9c13a9cf66db77918304daa2fc
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
> System Description:	Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela

Subject: 25.1; Strange warning from byte compiler in gud.el and gdb-mi.el
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:04:07 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

When these two files are compiled, the byte compiler emits strange
warnings:

    ELC      progmodes/gdb-mi.elc

  In toplevel form:
  progmodes/gdb-mi.el:675:1:Warning: Unused lexical argument `arg'

    ELC      progmodes/gud.elc

  In toplevel form:
  progmodes/gud.el:735:1:Warning: Unused lexical argument `arg'

But there's no "arg" anywhere in sight on those lines, which are
these:

(defun gdb (command-line)
(defun gud-gdb (command-line)

What is going on here?

In GNU Emacs 25.1.7 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2016-08-01 built on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Repository revision: aa4271ab7299c033760db64bf15476a5e0eee2a5
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
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