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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:53:02 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> The reader would produce, in place of the Lisp_Objects it currently
> does, an object with Lisp_Type 1 (which is currently unused).  The rest
> of the object would be an address pointing at two Lisp_Objects, one
> being the "real" read object, the other being a source position.

Sounds gross to me.

Did you consider using mint_ptr objects instead?  That'd be still be
gross, but at least we won't introduce another type of Lisp_Object.

Also, what about keeping the source position in some other way, like a
property of some symbol?