diff --git a/errors.go b/errors.go
index 8ee3059..c73c66d 100644
--- a/errors.go
+++ b/errors.go
@@ -59,52 +59,7 @@
 type stack []uintptr
 
 func (s stack) Location() (string, int) {
-	pc := s[0] - 1
-	fn := runtime.FuncForPC(pc)
-	if fn == nil {
-		return "unknown", 0
-	}
-
-	file, line := fn.FileLine(pc)
-
-	// Here we want to get the source file path relative to the compile time
-	// GOPATH. As of Go 1.6.x there is no direct way to know the compiled
-	// GOPATH at runtime, but we can infer the number of path segments in the
-	// GOPATH. We note that fn.Name() returns the function name qualified by
-	// the import path, which does not include the GOPATH. Thus we can trim
-	// segments from the beginning of the file path until the number of path
-	// separators remaining is one more than the number of path separators in
-	// the function name. For example, given:
-	//
-	//    GOPATH     /home/user
-	//    file       /home/user/src/pkg/sub/file.go
-	//    fn.Name()  pkg/sub.Type.Method
-	//
-	// We want to produce:
-	//
-	//    pkg/sub/file.go
-	//
-	// From this we can easily see that fn.Name() has one less path separator
-	// than our desired output. We count separators from the end of the file
-	// path until it finds two more than in the function name and then move
-	// one character forward to preserve the initial path segment without a
-	// leading separator.
-	const sep = "/"
-	goal := strings.Count(fn.Name(), sep) + 2
-	i := len(file)
-	for n := 0; n < goal; n++ {
-		i = strings.LastIndex(file[:i], sep)
-		if i == -1 {
-			// not enough separators found, set i so that the slice expression
-			// below leaves file unmodified
-			i = -len(sep)
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	// get back to 0 or trim the leading separator
-	file = file[i+len(sep):]
-
-	return file, line
+	return location(s[0] - 1)
 }
 
 // New returns an error that formats as the given text.
@@ -241,3 +196,52 @@
 	n := runtime.Callers(3, pcs[:])
 	return pcs[0:n]
 }
+
+// location returns the source file and line matching pc.
+func location(pc uintptr) (string, int) {
+	fn := runtime.FuncForPC(pc)
+	if fn == nil {
+		return "unknown", 0
+	}
+
+	file, line := fn.FileLine(pc)
+
+	// Here we want to get the source file path relative to the compile time
+	// GOPATH. As of Go 1.6.x there is no direct way to know the compiled
+	// GOPATH at runtime, but we can infer the number of path segments in the
+	// GOPATH. We note that fn.Name() returns the function name qualified by
+	// the import path, which does not include the GOPATH. Thus we can trim
+	// segments from the beginning of the file path until the number of path
+	// separators remaining is one more than the number of path separators in
+	// the function name. For example, given:
+	//
+	//    GOPATH     /home/user
+	//    file       /home/user/src/pkg/sub/file.go
+	//    fn.Name()  pkg/sub.Type.Method
+	//
+	// We want to produce:
+	//
+	//    pkg/sub/file.go
+	//
+	// From this we can easily see that fn.Name() has one less path separator
+	// than our desired output. We count separators from the end of the file
+	// path until it finds two more than in the function name and then move
+	// one character forward to preserve the initial path segment without a
+	// leading separator.
+	const sep = "/"
+	goal := strings.Count(fn.Name(), sep) + 2
+	i := len(file)
+	for n := 0; n < goal; n++ {
+		i = strings.LastIndex(file[:i], sep)
+		if i == -1 {
+			// not enough separators found, set i so that the slice expression
+			// below leaves file unmodified
+			i = -len(sep)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	// get back to 0 or trim the leading separator
+	file = file[i+len(sep):]
+
+	return file, line
+}