Subject: bug#24128: 25.1; Strange warning from byte compiler in gud.el and gdb-mi.el

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 23:48:59 -0400

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> We should make the reported line correct, then.  Right?
>
> Seems the reported line number names the start of the according
> top-level defun.  I wonder whether the compiler code knows at all to
> which line the reported warning exactly refers (I don't know, but
> somewhat doubt it).  Maybe someone else can help more.
>

It's a fairly long-standing bug, see
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2681 and merged bugs.