From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Difficulties byte-compiling very large .el Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <55615d5a-1473-43fc-9ed7-c4708974bd1a@u20g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250312519 12166 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2009 05:01:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:01:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 07:01:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1McBOp-000084-CM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McBOo-0000A1-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:01:50 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!u20g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250268733 19734 127.0.0.1 (14 Aug 2009 16:52:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u20g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171974 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:59:58 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67156 Archived-At: On Aug 12, 7:50 pm, Aemon 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 to byte-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 in byte compiling elisp files... nobody seems to have answered maybe i'll take a potshot. i tried to download and byte compile 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 23 byte code or vice versa? as you might know, emacs 23 went utf-8 for internal char representation, so the byte code 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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84