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Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:38:06 -0400 |
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>> > With that and with adding a few more (eval-when-compile (require 'blah))
>> What is the use of (eval-when-compile (require 'blah)) in this context?
>> I expect it's the wrong solution.
> When the number of warnings for undefined functions is too high it
> might be better to just require the package that defines them. But you
> might be right...
The bytecomp.el has code (which ssems not to work any more) that tries to
re-add the warnings in this case (turns the "unknown function" warnings you
get without the `require' into "not sure it'll be defined at runtime" with
the eval-when-compile require).
So it's not the right approach. `eval-when-compile' should really be used
to require packages that provide a macro or something like that: something
you really need to properly compile the file.
I agree that we need something to turn off specific warnings. Someone at
some point suggested (defun <foo>) following the same idea as (defvar <foo>).
I think it would be good. Although I think I'd rather allow the
external-function-delcaration to give an arglist so that the bytecompiler
can check you passed the right number of arguments as well. So maybe
something like
(declare-function <foo> <fooarglist>)
would work better.
Along similar lines I'd like to add a
(require-lazily <feature>)
which would behave similarly to `require' except that the byte-compiler
would replace it with a bunch of autoloads. so the package would only be
"required" when one of its functions was used.
In any case, for the issue of "dependencies" (e.g. calling
`Info-read-node-name' after `info', or calling `help-buffer' after
`help-setup-xref') I'm not sure what we should ideally do, but the
require-lazily seems like an acceptable solution.
Stefan
- byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/10/21
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/21
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Bob Rogers, 2007/10/21
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/23
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/23
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/23
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/23
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/23
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/24
- Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/23