bug#55414: 29.0.50; Byte compilation error for the modus-themes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>,  Stefan Monnier
>  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  acm@muc.de,  55414@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 13:57:09 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Lars, is it just me, or are you also concerned by a large increase in
> > the default values of these variables?
> 
> I'm not really that concerned in general, but in this case, the entire
> problem is apparently due to one function --
> byte-compile--first-symbol-with-pos -- that's very recursive.  It could
> be rewritten to not be recursive, and these problems would go away
> (which we've seen in many contexts now), if I understand correctly.

Alan, can you do this, please?