Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 17:31:26 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
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>  >> 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?
> 
> Doesn't "any other compiler out there" also leave me the choice what I
> want to check?

You can ask for more warnings, yes.  You can usually also ask for no
warnings at all, but that's not the default nowadays, not usually.

And in any case, do we have line numbers with errors right?  I thought
error messages also display inaccurate line numbers, for the same
basic reason.