GNU bug report logs - #45443
28.0.50; Can't find definition of compilation--message->loc

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:19:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Merged with 1457

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org, Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: bug#45443: 28.0.50; Can't find definition of compilation--message->loc
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:59:09 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  rms <at> gnu.org,  45443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:51:29 +0100
>> 
>> One possible approach is, if the regular expression code fails to find a
>> location, we can fall back to expand macros until we find the definition
>> (a defalias in the case of a function, or a defvar in the case of a
>> variable), or we reach the end of the file.
>
> Why do we need to expand macros? isn't it enough to find the defstruct
> itself, by looking for a partial match?

I haven't look at the patch, but I think the approach of macro expanding
is more general as should be able to track any function definition that
is synthesized by any macro.

  Andrea
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 140 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.