From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How does nativecomp compile circular lists?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:28:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjf8s1sf6lp.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKDRQS4V0_=ykc_PdAU_8A6tgP6wtmno3UKt2XHaSQawcve1ow@mail.gmail.com> (Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong's message of "Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:21:51 +0100")
Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not exactly sure how to even ask this question, as I've seen various packages fail to natively compile circular lists
> or optimize it wrongly. So I've come up with a simple test case for me to be able to disassemble the bytecode and the
> native code, and see if I could spot the problem, but disassembling natively compiled code doesn't seem to work.
>
> Test case:
>
> (defun test-circular-list ()
> (let ((l (list 1 2 3)))
> (setcdr (last l) l)
> l))
>
> (print (test-circular-list))
>
> (provide 'test-circular-list)
>
> M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load
> M-x disassemble RET test-circular-list (works)
>
> M-x emacs-lisp-native-compile-and-load
> M-x disassemble RET test-circular-list (doesn't work)
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed "^.*<F746573742d63697263756c61722d6c697374_test_cir...")
> re-search-forward("^.*<F746573742d63697263756c61722d6c697374_test_cir...")
> disassemble-internal(test-circular-list 0 nil)
> disassemble(test-circular-list nil 0 t)
> funcall-interactively(disassemble test-circular-list nil 0 t)
> command-execute(disassemble record)
> execute-extended-command(nil "disassemble" nil)
> funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "disassemble" nil)
> command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>
> Furthermore, this test case, though superficially similar, doesn't seem to be able to reproduce the same failure to
> natively compile issue as seen in powerline.
>
> There seems to be more than one thing wrong with this journey into my deep dive into how native compiling circular lists
> work.
>
> Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
>
Hi Jimmy,
I'm failing to reproduce this issue.
Disassembling following your instructions works here. Also the compiled
`test-circular-list' function as expected here.
Am I missing something?
Best Regards
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-27 7:21 How does nativecomp compile circular lists? Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2021-07-27 9:28 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2021-07-28 2:09 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
[not found] ` <6247f78b-282f-27e7-e0cf-6bc3b1cdee26@gmail.com>
2021-07-28 7:20 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-07-28 13:49 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2021-07-28 15:11 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-07-29 10:43 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2021-07-30 8:20 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-08-03 7:23 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2021-08-03 8:28 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-07-28 1:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-28 2:18 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
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