Re: MPS: Forwording symbols

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 22 2024, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This would require translating symbols to enums and back.  Or do you
>>>>> think about something else?
>>>>
>>>> I haven't looked at all places. Could you please explain where that is
>>>> needed?
>>>
>>> The symbol is needed in store_symval_forwarding.  It looks in the plist
>>> for 'choice and 'range.  In addition to the five symbols mentioned in
>>> the definition of Lisp_Buffer_Objfwd, predicate can also be
>>> 'overwrite-mode, 'vertical-scroll-bar and 'fraction.  I think those have
>>> those properties; weird.
>>
>> I guess then it's better to leave the enum part out. That seems to
>> become too much work. What an ugly corner.
>
> BTW, the latest HEAD doesn't build with --enable-checking, maybe
> something with DEFVAR_NOPRO. I'll try to fix that.
>
>   rm -f bootstrap-emacs.pdmp
>   ./temacs --batch  -l loadup --temacs=pbootstrap \
>           --bin-dest /Users/gerd/emacs/github/tinker/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/ --eln-dest /Users/gerd/emacs/github/tinker/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Frameworks/
>
>   alloc.c:6159: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: staticvec[i] != varaddress

That was in my fork only. Reason is that I need CL packages very early
on to do anything interning symbol, of course. And *emacs-package* and
*package* and so on need to be variables, too, later.

I've made me a DEFVAR_NOPROX for such cases.

And pushed.