From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Spencer Baugh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Associating module symbols with defining files Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:23:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86msnq1tkr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37809"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:eFTBBbs5TaBKg1E17Bd/QeHYGI8= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 12 18:55:10 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sHRFc-0009be-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:55:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sHRF1-0002jh-FM; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:54:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sHPpM-00076N-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sHPpK-0002NB-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sHPpH-0005SG-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:23:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:54:30 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:320006 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Spencer Baugh >> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:00:33 -0400 >> >> >> It's currently impossible to associate a symbol defined by a module with >> the source file which actually defined that symbol. >> >> If this were possible, things like help-view-source would be able to >> jump to the source code for a module-defined function. Under the hood, >> ultimately we want symbol-file to return a correct filename for these >> symbols. >> >> Instead, currently, every symbol defined by a module is "defined" by the >> module .so. So jumping to source just jumps to the (compiled) .so, >> which is fairly useless. >> >> Could this be fixed? > > Maybe. But please submit a feature-request bug report with all the > details and a reproducer, so that we could track this issue. > > Thanks. Sure, filed bug#71522 https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=71522