From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps. Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 16:59:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83sgzhb8ec.fsf@gnu.org> References: <23334086-c0a1-7b34-4234-343719618bd1@cs.ucla.edu> <20181128120443.GA4036@ACM> <20181129220552.GI12576@ACM> <9dde4ed7-8401-6022-a668-258d48bb7726@cs.ucla.edu> <20181130185503.GA16256@ACM> <20181130220218.GB16256@ACM> <138d56b7-53df-1ea5-377c-8502245f1b6b@cs.ucla.edu> <5C0239DA.4030907@gmx.at> <20181201124727.GC5102@ACM> <5C02962C.5040505@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543676283 17903 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2018 14:58:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 14:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, acm@muc.de To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 01 15:57:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gT6iU-0004VA-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:57:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT6kY-0003oI-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10:00:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT6jx-0003o0-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:59:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT6jw-0000NF-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT6jr-0000Jw-Fv; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:59:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3813 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gT6jq-0005dx-CP; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:59:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <5C02962C.5040505@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:09:48 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231558 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:09:48 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > CC: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, Paul Eggert , > michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, > Eli Zaretskii > > IMO the "byte compiler bug" has a simple fix which, however, nobody > but me would accept: When there is the slightest doubt do not print > position indications. IMO, that would be a change for the worse: currently we at least have a position near the locus of the problem, which does limit the search to some extent. > Also I don't understand why it should be the byte compiler's task to > check the syntax of expressions for correctness. Because that's what any other compiler out there does?