GNU bug report logs - #24449
Emacs 25.1 RC2: Byte compiler reports error in wrong place.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:33:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in versions 23.0.91, 23.3.1, 24.0.50, 24.3.1, 25.0.50, 25.1

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 24449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 24449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24449: Emacs 25.1 RC2: Byte compiler reports error in wrong
 place.
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:09:38 +0300

> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:33:52 +0000
> Cc: 24449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> > If you didn't, you should, because after you do, you will never again
> > wonder why an incorrect line number is reported.  In fact, now that I
> > did look there, I'm surprised it reports a correct line number at all,
> > let alone as often as it does.  It's sheer luck.
> 
> This is not a Good Thing.  Even its own comment describes itself as a
> "gross hack".  Surely we can do better?

I certainly hope we can.  But, unless I misunderstood something, the
way it's designed makes that really hard.
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