From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Prickliness of the "invalid byte code" stuff
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:47:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p917e9ltobo.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1hcL65-00067A-Pf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:40:45 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
And if one is developing a large package that one also uses all the
time, it would be even nicer if it just went ahead and reloaded the
file, > [[[ 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-16 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-15 12:36 Prickliness of the "invalid byte code" stuff Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-15 14:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-16 2:40 ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-16 12:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-16 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-16 17:47 ` T.V Raman [this message]
2019-06-16 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-17 2:39 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-17 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-17 18:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-17 22:52 ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-17 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-18 0:14 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-18 12:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-18 13:51 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-18 14:15 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-18 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-18 18:23 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-18 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 19:54 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-19 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-19 13:54 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-19 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-18 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-19 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-19 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-19 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-19 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-19 21:35 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-21 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-21 14:10 ` T.V Raman
2019-06-21 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-21 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-21 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-17 16:01 ` Richard Stallman
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