From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11719: 24.1; CL argument list error Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:44:06 +0100 Message-ID: <8762as666x.fsf@blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339792211 13468 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2012 20:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:30:11 +0000 (UTC) To: 11719@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 22:30:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sfd9k-0002Xp-EY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sfd9k-0006kG-9K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:44:06 -0000 X-Mail-Via: blue User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) SMTP-Host: smtp.blueyonder.co.uk SMTP-Port: 25 X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=JvdXmxIgLJv2/GthKqHpGJEEHukvLcvELVXUanXFreg= c=1 sm=0 a=9XsgTmalabQA:10 a=3NElcqgl2aoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=46akP8vE0t1anHXdEmcA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:32:57 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:61025 Archived-At: Dear Emacs maintainers and bug fixers, In Emacs 22.1, evaluating (funcall (function* (lambda ((x . y)) (cons y x))) '(1 . 2)) returns (2 . 1), as expected and documented. In Emacs 24.1, evaluating the above sexp yields this error message: Wrong type argument: listp, y This happens because (cl--make-usage-args '((x . y))) recursively descends into it argument list and evaluates this: (memq '&cl-defs '(x . y)) In the older Emacs, cl--make-usage-args did not even exist and only a simpler portion of its code is present instead of the call to cl--make-usage-args. In particular, the recursive descent is missing. I hope this bug report is somehow helpful. By the way, I have personally worked around the bug by disabling cl--make-usage-args completely, which is okay because it is only used to build a doc string for the anonymous function. I disabled it like this: (defadvice cl--make-usage-args (around jbw-fix-brokenness activate)) -- With my best wishes, Joe Wells ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2012-06-12 on jove Configured using: `configure '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables''