From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating *.el files and native compilation Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 19:59:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8di5xtw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83mtt5acjw.fsf@gnu.org> <837dk67lvw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30393"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 19:03:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9JA-0007p0-7l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 May 2021 19:03:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52418 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9J9-0001WK-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 May 2021 13:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9Ft-0006dZ-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2021 12:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9Fr-00035u-7h; Mon, 10 May 2021 12:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3985 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lg9Fl-00077o-Td; Mon, 10 May 2021 12:59:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Andrea Corallo on Mon, 10 May 2021 15:44:16 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269124 Archived-At: > From: Andrea Corallo > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 15:44:16 +0000 > > > If so, how can we make sure we never fail to update comp-abi-hash when > > that is needed? > > The vast majority of the cases is when some subr is added or a signature > is changed and we account for this automatically. The rest should be > only about changes specific to the eln load mechanism in comp.c. I hope > who does that is very well aware of consequences but I don't know if > there's a way we can automatically guard against these changes breaking > the system (I guess there's not). Maybe you should try writing up the rules for when such a change is needed. Don't worry about the English correctness: it is easy to fix that once the text is written. But I think no one but you knows the rules for now, so it should be a good idea to record them. Thanks.