From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 39385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39385: Erroneous interaction of eval-when-compile and condition-case
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 21:47:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200201214731.GA11168@ACM> (raw)
Hello, Emacs.
On master, with emacs -Q.
Create the following file, bad-eval-when-compile.el:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(defmacro c-safe (&rest body)
;; safely execute BODY, return nil if an error occurred
`(condition-case nil
(progn ,@body)
(error nil)))
(defmacro foo ()
(error "This message should not be seen"))
(eval-when-compile
(c-safe (foo)))
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Now do M-x byte-compile-file <CR> bad-eval-when-compile.el <CR>. This
erroneously throws the error:
This message should not be seen
. This should have been caught by the condition-case generated by
(c-safe ...).
As a matter of interest, if eval-when-compile is replaced by
cc-eval-when-compile:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(defmacro cc-eval-when-compile (&rest body)
`(eval-when-compile
(eval '(progn ,@body))))
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
, then the compilation succeeds. So it would appear that there is a bug
in the byte compiler's handling of eval-when-compile.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2020-02-01 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-01 21:47 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2020-02-02 1:04 ` bug#39385: Erroneous interaction of eval-when-compile and condition-case Noam Postavsky
2020-02-02 13:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-02-02 15:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
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