Re: Thoughts on getting correct line numbers in the byte compiler's warning messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:12:14 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > This needs support in src/.gdbinit and documentation.
> 
> Yes!  I think .gdbinit will be relatively straightforward.  How much to
> put into the docs (the elisp manual?) is more difficult to decide.
> Although primariliy for the byte compiler, Michael Heerdegen has already
> said he's got other uses for it.

The object and its predicate(s) should be documented, as well as the
new primitive which uses it, read-positioning-symbols.  The printed
representation of the new Lisp object should also be documented (we do
that for every other Lisp object).  And there should be a short
announcement in NEWS.