From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Odd backtrace in condition-case Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 19:22:27 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="179245"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 20 20:22:47 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSmvu-000kWX-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 20:22:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSmvt-0000XT-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 14:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSmvm-0000XB-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 14:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSmvl-0000bi-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 14:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34762 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSmvl-0000aY-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 14:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSmvh-000kJt-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 20:22:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:8DLezz0mw0OwWY/auTHc+bBLGPw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236812 Archived-At: On Mon 20 May 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > I usually run with `debug-on-error' set, but lately I've started getting > these backtraces: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil) > capitalize(nil) > timezone-make-arpa-date(2000 0 0 "01:00:00" (3600 "CET")) > timezone-make-date-arpa-standard("Session") > date-to-time("Session") > (condition-case nil (date-to-time "Session") (error nil)) > Shouldn't the `error' clause in condition-case catch all errors? `date-to-time' has: (condition-case-unless-debug err (encode-time (parse-time-string (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard date))) As you have `debug-on-error' set, this looks like the expected behaviour. The `condition-case-unless-debug' was added by Stefan in commit cb411c609d43 on April 19th. Perhaps this is left over debugging code ? AndyM