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26.2; invalid-read-syntax could print the location of the error

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: emacsuser <at> freemail.hu, 36970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36970: 26.2; invalid-read-syntax could print the location
 of the error
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:06:59 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: emacsuser <at> freemail.hu,  36970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:40:07 +0100
> 
> 	nlines = display_count_lines (startpos_byte,
> 				      PT_BYTE, PT, &junk);
> 
> So I guess I should just put the prototype in lisp.h and use it?

Yes (and make it non-static).  Alternatively, define a wrapper for it
that doesn't accept that last arg, and make _that_ wrapper extern and
more suitably named.

> (It's kinda surprising that no other part of Emacs has felt the need
> to compute a line number before...)

Emacs almost never counts lines, except for 2 display features: the
line-number display in the mode line and display-line-numbers-mode.
The buffer-with-gap paradigm makes a point of not knowing where each
line ends and how many lines are there.

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