From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Nonsensical byte compiler warning. Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:11:25 -0400 Message-ID: <873b3dillu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <85ps6okoe5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87lkhcj791.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87tzvwvj6c.fsf@gmx.at> <861wj04qcq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <873b3gpn4u.fsf@gmx.at> <86fy7g34tk.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87r6qzqmpg.fsf@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175875022 23763 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 15:57:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, Markus Triska , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 17:56:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZq6Q-0003hw-7C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:11:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZq9u-0003wJ-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZq9r-0003sH-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZq9q-0003rm-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZq6L-0000At-Iv; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l36FBgBM026540; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:11:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l36FBVvG001097; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (SYDNEYPACIFIC-FIVE-FORTY-FIVE.MIT.EDU [18.95.7.34]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l36FBQB5026954; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:11:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HZq61-0001jl-00; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:11:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 06 Apr 2007 08\:56\:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69127 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Warnings stemming from the optimiser are commonly restricted to > defun-level positional information. For example, byte compiling: > > (defun f () > (message "hi") > (quote 0 1) > (let ((x 0 1)))) > > gives two warnings (both to the defun). Should these be fixed too? > > I agree this is too hard to change now. > However, it would have been premature to give up without > checking. I've added a TODO item for this: ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.