Re: Correct byte compiler error/warning positions. The solution!

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 19:55:28 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 19:22:02 +0000
> >> 
> >> I think it could be a good idea but I believe there's no need to use
> >> macros here, we could have just functions return rvalues no?
> >> 
> >> I'm not a big fan of C macros and I try not to use them whem possible.
> >
> > Macros punish unoptimized builds less severely than functions.
> 
> Yep, but in this case I'm sure the perf delta is not measurable
> therefore IMO functions should be preferred.

I was responding to a much more general dislike of macros that you
expressed above, and wanted to explain why we do use macros in Emacs.