Re: inlinable functions instead of macros

[Óscar Fuentes]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     lisp.h:2416: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: found == !EQ 
> (blv->defcell, blv->valcell)
>
>     I.e. the file&line info is always the same rather than giving the
>     file&line where the inlinable function was called.
>
> Could a GCC improvement be a good fix for this?  For instance, if it
> allowed the assertion failure to find and mention the source location
> of the function's caller?

It looks quite difficult to even give a sound specification for such
feature. And I bet that the implementation, if possible at all, would be
very complex and extensive.

Either print a backtrace or revert to #define's.