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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 14:23:15 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 07:21:12 -0400
> 
> Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I think the significant milestone is that it's been with us since 26.1,
> i.e., this is a regression since Emacs 25.

Then maybe we should again consider reverting on emacs-26 the change
which caused the regression.