From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Difficulties byte-compiling very large .el
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:22:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5df896c9-77e2-4215-bb4a-59b9f57a1790@k6g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4be0bed4-b363-4d97-9d78-a9b506664f05@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com
On Aug 17, 8:48 pm, Aemon <aemoncan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 14, 12:52 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Aug 12, 7:50 pm, Aemon <aemoncan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I've been working on a project to create an elisp target for the ANTLR
> > > parser-generator. Here's the project page:http://github.com/aemoncannon/antlr-elisp/tree/experimental
>
> > > The generated parser for ActionScript 3 is over 30k lines long and
> > > fails tobyte-compile with the message:
> > > as3_elispParser.el:31515:33:Error: Invalid character: 256, #o400,
> > > #x100
>
> > > Here's the source in question:http://aemon.com/file_dump/as3_elispParser.el
>
> > > I don't think the error is actually related to the content of the
> > > file, as deleting arbitrary chunks seems to make the error go away.
>
> > > There are lots of "Warning: reference to free variable ...." warnings,
> > > but I understand where those are coming from and I'm not worried about
> > > them.
>
> > > Bear in mind there are *lots* of macros being expanded. Most of the
> > > forms with the prefix 'a3el' are macros.
>
> > > Any ideas?
>
> > i don't have much experience inbytecompilingelisp files... nobody
> > seems to have answered maybe i'll take a potshot.
>
> > i tried to download andbytecompile it, but first error is that i
> > lack the required package declared in the first line. So, we couldn't
> > really test it.
>
> > about this error:
>
> > > as3_elispParser.el:31515:33:Error: Invalid character: 256, #o400,
> > > #x100
>
> > are you using emacs 22 with emacs 23bytecode or vice versa? as you
> > might know, emacs 23 went utf-8 for internal char representation, so
> > thebytecode produced are incompatible with emacs 22. The error msg
> > above smells like this sort of problem. If your .el files does not
> > have any non-ascii char, then it shouldn't be a problem though.
>
> > oh, just noticed you did give the project page link above. Am tired
> > atm will have maybe try later. But when did this problem start to
> > happen? There must be a point when things are working and not working.
>
> > Xah
> > ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> > ☄
>
> Hi Xah,
>
> Thanks for taking a look.
>
> As of my previous email I'd been using exclusively emacs 22, but your
> mention of emacs 23 inspired me to try it out. Interestingly the byte-
> compile fails with a slightly different error:
>
> ../test/grammars/as3_elispParser.el:31515:33:Error: Args out of range:
> 256, 0, 255
>
> - I searched the file for non-ascii characters and found none.
>
> - The source interprets just fine using eval-buffer.
>
> - The line mentioned (31515) is the second-to-last line in the file --
> I don't see anything special about it.
>
> Still no luck, but I'll keep hammering on it.
>
> BTW, do you know of any other elisp sources that are so large as 31k
> lines?
interesting info. Thanks. The largest single lisp file i know of is
about slightly over 11k lines. e.g. js2-mode.
perhaps try the emacs dev mailing list.
Xah
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-13 2:50 Difficulties byte-compiling very large .el Aemon
2009-08-14 16:52 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-18 3:48 ` Aemon
2009-08-18 4:22 ` Xah Lee [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=5df896c9-77e2-4215-bb4a-59b9f57a1790@k6g2000yqn.googlegroups.com \
--to=xahlee@gmail.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).