From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prickliness of the "invalid byte code" stuff Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:40:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tvcq9b0w.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="144711"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 16 04:41:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL6S-000bTz-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL6Q-0001PL-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL6A-0001J4-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL69-0006pa-K8; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hcL65-00067A-Pf; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:40:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tvcq9b0w.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:30:07 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237711 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > url-http-parse-headers: Invalid byte code in /home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.elc [8 times] > > > > And it's almost always with this "invalid byte code" stuff. > > > > What does it mean, really? > emacs-lisp/cl-seq.elc was modified after being loaded. You need to > reload it. I wonder if we could modify that error message so as to inform users better about the likely cause. The code which reports that error could check the date of the file, determine whether the problem is due to changing the file, and if so say so clearly. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)