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25.1; find-lisp-object-file-name may return wrong locations

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>, 24697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24697: 25.1; find-lisp-object-file-name may return wrong locations
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:51:43 +0300

On 6/18/17 1:26 AM, Alex wrote:

> The first and last of these are fixed by the following diff.
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> The second is a bit odder. For some reason, find-lisp-object-file-name
> searches for an internal function definition using TYPE instead of
> OBJECT. I would have expected it to use OBJECT like the rest of the
> tests do. I see no reason for the current behaviour.

Thanks. Do you think you can write test cases for these problems? There 
are some existing ones in test/lisp/help-fns-tests.el.

> Either the documentation should be changed to clearly indicate the
> current behaviour, or the function should be changed so that OBJECTs for
> which (subrp (symbol-function OBJECT)) returns t should return
> 'C-source'.

With a test case, you might also find it easier to make a choice 
regarding this problem.

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