No, you showed Concise giving the line number of the while loop, and Xref giving the line number of the my. Those are different ops. Concise doesn't even try to give the line number of the my because it's not stored anywhere. Xref gets it from the nearest preceding nextstate, which is the one from the last statement of the loop.

I'm out.

Cheers Rolf
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