From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elint and the byte-compiler Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:19:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87bng2kqh1.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <87y4j6lbci.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150626170404.21195.3842694D@ahiker.mooo.com> <87pp4iksv9.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150626230651.23492.070D4029@ahiker.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435360902 31643 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2015 23:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:21:42 +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 Jun 27 01:21:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1Z8cvw-0007QE-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cvv-0000Oc-U7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cvj-0000OL-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cvg-0008G7-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55803) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cvg-0008DO-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cvS-0006za-Ip for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:20:50 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-246.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:20:50 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-246.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:20:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-246.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HQap8IVayFQlP2cW5PSu8M5oXmc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105210 Archived-At: Ian Zimmerman writes: > Any code which sets global variables unconditionally > probably cannot make it past code review and into > Emacs proper, so I wouldn't worry about this > possibility for modules that come with Emacs. OK - so in other words I can remove all the requires and to make the byte-compiler shut up just use defvar before I set the variable. > For others, I would try byte-compiling them with > a virgin Emacs (ie. one started with -q). If they > misbehave they should cause exactly the > same warning. OK. Well, the only thing I use along those lines is Emacs-w3m so it shouldn't be that much work. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573