From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: strange byte compiler behavior Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:10:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200712312055.lBVKteSa012881@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801021948.m02JmJ1Y005211@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801022317.m02NHVSC017328@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199427076 31663 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2008 06:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 07:11:36 2008 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 1JAfmJ-0004Xz-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:11:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAflw-0002c3-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:11:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAflp-0002Zh-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAfln-0002Xd-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAfln-0002XR-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAflj-0004Mn-Vt; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:11:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAEpcfUfO+K+E/2dsb2JhbACqaw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,243,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12267555" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2008 01:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.175.132]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id KHO49258; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 148977F5E; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:10:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:27:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:86044 Archived-At: > A deeper solution would be to get rid of the boundp test. > I'm sure it was added for a reason -- there must have been lots of > spurious warnings without that boundp test. But nowadays we have done > a lot to eliminate such warnings with defvars. Perhaps now if we get > rid of that boundp test the results would be ok. > Does someone want to try it? No need to try: the boundp test is still needed to catch the case of a variable defined globally in all cases (e.g. in C code or in preloaded packages) as well as for variables defined in packages that are `require'd (or loaded transitively by some of the `require'd packages). Stefan