From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6991: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:28:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmmhtimm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8739tm9vzl.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505140167 540 195.159.176.226 (11 Sep 2017 14:29:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6991@debbugs.gnu.org To: Rocky Bernstein Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 16:29:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drPhx-0007a8-2D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drPi4-0005Yi-G8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drPhy-0005YY-0Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drPhu-0007Yp-9d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:53131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drPhu-0007Yj-5o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drPht-0004nv-VE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:29:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6991 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed notabug Original-Received: via spool by 6991-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6991.150514010118412 (code B ref 6991); Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6991) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2017 14:28:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33579 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drPhF-0004mu-7U for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34049) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drPhD-0004mh-Jg for 6991@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drPh7-0006zT-L9 for 6991@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drPgy-0006tr-Jc; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4300 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1drPgx-0001Dt-J7; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:28:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Rocky Bernstein on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 06:57:58 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:136776 Archived-At: > From: Rocky Bernstein > 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.