Subject: bug#67483: Wrong warning position given by the byte compiler for a malformed function

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:01:40 +0000

Hello, Eli.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 15:50:25 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:20:54 +0000
> > Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>

> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 15:14:29 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:40:49 +0000
> > > > From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>

> > > > In any recent or semi-recent Emacs create a file bad-error-position.el
> > > > with these contents:

> > > Which branch? master or emacs-29?

> > Both.  Probably emacs-28, too.

> So it isn't a "semi-recent" problem, is it?

It isn't ten years old, either.  I have a fix ready to commit to the
master branch.

Seeing as how the bug isn't recently introduced, and isn't a critical
bug, I'm assuming the patch is not destined for the release branch.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).