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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:50:17 +0300

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

So it's high time we had it fixed, IMO.

Thanks.