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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>
Cc: 6991@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6991:
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:28:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bmmhtimm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCp2gYpyfpbOmtF3emK2rY0q0r+z5cHTFcQXWN_BiC6nzKtBw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Rocky Bernstein on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 06:57:58 -0400)

> From: Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 06:57:58 -0400
> 
> have started looking at decompiling ELISP bytecode using the techniques from uncompyle6 . 
> 
> So far the results are promising. Of course one isn't going to get the exact source text back. 
> 
> For the bytecode for source text
> 
> (setq a nil)
> (setq b nil)
> 
> when decompiled gives the equivalent: 
> 
> (setq a (setq b nil))
> 
> And macros will be in their expanded form. But I believe nevertheless programmers will have a very good idea
> of what was going on when an error was raised.

Sounds interesting and potentially useful.  Please keep up the good
work.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-11 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07  1:35 bug#6991: Please keep bytecode out of *Backtrace* buffers jidanni
2012-02-22  1:02 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 16:43   ` Drew Adams
2012-02-22 17:01     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-07-02 17:40       ` Drew Adams
2012-07-02 18:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-02 19:06           ` Drew Adams
2013-01-24 22:43             ` Drew Adams
     [not found]             ` <<FEE817DF5DCC41CD9156B414FF2088D1@us.oracle.com>
2013-08-07 22:25               ` Drew Adams
2016-02-26  6:41           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-26 14:11             ` Drew Adams
2016-02-27  0:52               ` John Wiegley
2016-02-27  1:49                 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-19  1:55                   ` npostavs
2016-11-19  2:37                     ` Drew Adams
2016-11-19  7:41                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-19 14:39                       ` npostavs
2016-11-19 15:07                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-19 15:20                           ` npostavs
2016-11-19 18:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-19 22:33                               ` npostavs
2016-11-20 15:46                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-22 18:07                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-22 18:52                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-22 21:07                                       ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-23 16:05                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 17:18                                           ` npostavs
2016-11-26 18:54                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-12  2:26                                               ` npostavs
2017-05-28 14:58                                                 ` npostavs
2017-06-24 22:27                                                   ` npostavs
2017-06-25 19:11                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26  3:34                                                       ` npostavs
2017-06-26  4:02                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 12:50                                                           ` npostavs
2017-06-26 14:54                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-27  3:56                                                               ` npostavs
2017-06-27 16:18                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-29 23:52                                                                   ` npostavs
2016-11-26 23:45                                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-27  0:33                                               ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-27  3:34                                                 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-27  3:36                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-27 14:10                                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-27 23:21                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-19 17:08                       ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-27  4:13                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-11 10:57 ` bug#6991: Rocky Bernstein
2017-09-11 14:28   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-13  1:13     ` bug#6991: Rocky Bernstein

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