Done, it's 934bb475b9a729d0be4d78cd89c1d22d032ee3d7 in
emacs-26 (which I hope is the "release branch" you're talking of
, if it isn't please let me know).

In master I will later address the cause of the error, which is a bug in
itself, but this needn't make it to the release branch.

João

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  johnw@gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 10:01:43 +0100
> >
> > > If it isn't rare, I wonder how come no one noticed until now that we
> > > are littering the filesystem with these
> >
> > Good question! I guess few people are using it, or they're using it
> > with special care, or they are used to the _flymake.c garbage
> > anyway because the old flymake used to make it from time to time (though
> > not in such a trivial case)
>
> OK, please cherry-pick the commit you made to master to the release
> branch.
>
> Thanks.
>



-- 
João Távora