bug#50482: Unhelpful error message whilst byte-compiling a function.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> I'm working on a function which begins thus:
>
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> (defun jit-lock--run-functions-new (beg end &optional last-fun)
>   (let ((tight-beg nil) (tight-end nil) ; The region we have fully fontified.
>         (loose-beg beg) (loose-end end)) ; The maximum region we have fontified
>                                         ; with at least some of
>                                         ; `jit-lock-functions'.
>     (run-hook-wrapped
>      'jit-lock-functions
> ......
> ......
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> On doing M-x compile-defun on this function, I get as sum total of the
> output in *Compile-Log* this:
>
> Buffer jit-lock.el:416:1: Error: Wrong number of arguments: #<subr
> macroexp--warn-wrap>, 3

If I just put that in a buffer (and add some closing parentheses), I
don't get that warning.  Is there something else needed?

> ..  I don't know what this means.  Line 416 is the line where the defun
> starts.  I don't have `macroexp--warn-wrap' anywhere in my source code,
> it's not clear to what form 3 arguments are being wrongly passed, or
> where.

The warn-wrap stuff comes from `with-suppressed-warnings', I think.

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