Aidan,
Thanks for pointing out the overflow issue. As you may have guessed, those
constants are both max-value for a signed 32 bit integer, which is what
ANTLR spits out in LL* situations (unbounded values for max-k). I may be
able to specify the max value for elisp in the ANTLR template....

RE: My original problem,
I narrowed it down a bit and submitted a report at:
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4251
I've since sent a followup with the following code, that also fails:
;;----------------

(defmacro many-forms ()
  (let ((body '()))
    (dotimes (i 20000)
      (setq body (cons '(message "more") body)))
    `(progn ,@body)))

(many-forms)

(if (eq 1 a)
    (message "dude")
  (message "else"))

;;--------------

I had assumed that the goto opcode used a 16 bit relative offset, but this
snippet seems to indicate that it's not relative to the conditional itself.
I also noticed in bytecode.c that the goto opcodes all use:
.....
stack.pc = stack.byte_string_start + op;
.....
where 'op' is a 16 bit int. This indicates that the jump is measured in
relation to the top of the current byte_string, so if the conditional is in
its own byte_string, it should work:
;;--------------------
(defmacro many-forms ()
  (let ((body '()))
    (dotimes (i 20000)
      (setq body (cons '(message "more") body)))
    `(progn ,@body)))

(many-forms)

(defun bar ()
  (if (eq 1 a)
      (message "dude")
    (message "else")))

;; ----------------------------

Which does work. Wrapping in lambda also works.

So now I'm thinking that as3_elispParser.el must have a single function body
whose bytecode overflows the 16bit limit. As removing chunks of code from
the top-level seems to alleviate the error (the lines with
(a3el-parser-bitset ..) for instance), I'm guessing that the problematic
byte_string corresponds to the top-level of the file.

I may be able to wrap this top-level setup code into smaller functions....











On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

>
>  Ar an cúigiú lá is fiche de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Miles Bader:
>
>  > Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> writes:
>  > > GNU Emacs has (IIRC) 27-bit integers on 32-bit platforms
>  >
>  > ``The range of values for integers in Emacs Lisp is -268435456 to
>  > 268435455 (29 bits; i.e., -2**28 to 2**28 - 1) on most machines.''
>
> Thanks for the correction. Aemon’s problem remains, though, independent of
> that. Is there a good reason you don’t error on encountering integers the
> emacs binary can’t represent? Portable code needs to be prepared for that
> anyway.
>
> --
> ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghe, que tuvo que huir
> precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?
>