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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Correct byte compiler error/warning positions.  The solution!
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:33:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YaIJY1ctav4jyIk0@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335nh29pt.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello, Eli.

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 12:07:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:31:05 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > Hello, Eli.

> > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 07:53:36 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 19:56:21 +0000
> > > > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > > > A _LOT_ of these comparisons were for NILP, which is just #defined as EQ
> > > > (arg, Qnil).  However if NILP were to be defined directly as arg ==
> > > > Qnil, it would bypass the overhead in EQ.

> > > How can you use == when the operands could be structures?

> > I meant that NILP will be implemented as a binary comparison against
> > zero, omitting the awkward test for symbols_with_position_enabled.

> Please don't write code that assumes Qnil is zero.  (Or maybe I still
> misunderstand what exactly you mean by the above.)

Don't worry!  The new code merely assumes Qnil is a symbol, and leaves it
to the compiler to optimise for Qnil being binary zero.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-27 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-26 19:56 Correct byte compiler error/warning positions. The solution! Alan Mackenzie
2021-11-27  5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27  9:31   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-11-27 10:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 10:33       ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-11-27 10:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 23:05           ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-11-28  7:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 11:50               ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-11-29 12:45                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 19:39                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-01 15:58                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-01 16:49                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 16:58                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-01 17:04                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:21                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-01 17:38                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 20:28                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-01 17:08                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:12                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-01 17:53                             ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-01 17:57                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 11:21                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-02 16:31                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-02 20:35                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-03 21:05                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-04 19:22                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-04 19:39                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 19:55                                           ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-04 19:58                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 20:06                                               ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-14 14:29                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-15  9:33                                           ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-17 11:54                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-20  8:24                                               ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-21 17:48                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-11-29 13:24                 ` Robert Pluim
2021-11-29 19:16                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-11-30  9:52                     ` Robert Pluim
2021-11-28 20:15             ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-01 16:18               ` Andrea Corallo
2021-12-01 16:46                 ` Alan Mackenzie

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