From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:50:46 +0200 Message-ID: <471B20F6.7010304@gmx.at> References: <200710210738.l9L7cIGs012673@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192960254 8945 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2007 09:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 11:50:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjXSQ-0007Vh-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:50:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjXSJ-0002iy-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjXSG-0002ij-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjXSE-0002iL-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjXSE-0002iI-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjXSD-0008WO-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2007 09:50:38 -0000 Original-Received: from N763P000.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.39.64]) [62.47.39.64] by mail.gmx.net (mp056) with SMTP; 21 Oct 2007 11:50:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+XnZkKJTiX7QxXWa2lZ2iGpTbT5ntwquCVN/8e8j /q4KCfsyQw68ci User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200710210738.l9L7cIGs012673@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81359 Archived-At: > When bootstrapping the number of byte compiler warnings is huge. > > A few bugs could have been caught earlier if the problematic warnings > would have been easier to find. > > Wouldn't it be better if an effort would be made to get rid of most > (if not all) the warnings? > > To get rid of some of the "function is not known to be defined" > warnings it would be good if we had a way to tell the byte compiler > to not warn about a function not being defined. > > With that and with adding a few more (eval-when-compile (require 'blah)) > we should be able to get rid of most warnings. > > Is this a worthy goal? Opinions? Very worthy, IMHO. Thanks also for taking care of the next-/previous-line annoyances.