GNU bug report logs - #61962
30.0.50; New trouble with symbols with positions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 16:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 61962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Mattias EngdegÄrd <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 61962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61962: 30.0.50; New trouble with symbols with positions
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2023 20:41:48 +0100
Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> I disagree with your concept here.  Warning positions are not accurate
> or inaccurate (they cannot be +- 2%, for example), they are either
> correct or they are wrong.  A lot of effort was put into making them
> correct, although it is clear from this bug that that project is as yet
> incomplete.

This was not intended to sound like it did to you.  I see the
exact compiler warning positions as a big improvement.

> Please don't revert that commit from 2023-02-17.  I will look into
> this and try to fix the bug properly.

I wanted to spare others from seeing these hard to interpret errors
this commit introduces.  Anyway, take your time, a few days won't hurt.

Michael.




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