From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Docstring hack
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:36:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qu2lo29.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkt6687a.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:28:25 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:14:10 -0400
>>
>> The core emacs lisp libraries are riddled with strings that are erroneously treated as docstrings in dump
>> mode, which causes problems in the build when, say, format gets a 0 as its template string in a macro
>> expansion.
>
> Please show several examples, as I don't think I understand the issue
> well enough to have an opinion.
>
> Thanks.
I think the problem is this:
(format <control string starting with escaped newline> args...)
will result in (format 0 args...) during dumping.
To be honest, I don't see the importance of the issue. We only have to
make sure such code never exists in code loaded prior to dumping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-30 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-30 12:14 Docstring hack Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 12:25 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 12:50 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 13:04 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 13:32 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 13:36 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-07-30 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 15:38 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 16:32 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 2:17 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 7:24 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 8:48 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 9:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-31 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-01 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04 4:12 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 12:53 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 20:29 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-08-01 1:05 ` Po Lu
2022-08-01 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 8:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-31 12:43 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-02 16:55 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 11:57 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 0:52 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 7:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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