Subject: Re: bug#35770: [PATCH] Broken duplicate case elimination in switch byte-compilation

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 13:11:19 +0200

22 maj 2019 kl. 12.58 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:
> 
> However, in this case I really wonder why we should be so eager to
> install the change on the emacs-26 branch.  How long this wrong code
> has been with us?

About two years, and it only matters for (arguably) buggy code, so you are probably right.

On the other hand, different behaviour in compiled and interpreted code does not make it easier to find such bugs.