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25.0.50; unhelpful error message from byte compiler

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From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50; unhelpful error message from byte compiler
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:54:11 -0700

Byte compile this code:

(push zzz)

I get:

q.el:1:1:Error: Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1

This should at least mention "push".
If you have a longer program, the line number will not always be
helpful.  In my case it pointed to the start of a long defun -- but the
bad push was toward the end.




In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.7 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
 of 2014-11-02 on bapiya
Repository revision: 118270 larsi <at> gnus.org-20141103010307-bxryy53hat500i4w
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11404000
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/home/tromey/Emacs/install'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

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  auto-encryption-mode: t
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Recent input:
C-b C-f C-SPC C-M-b C-M-f C-f C-SPC C-M-b C-M-b M-f 
C-M-f C-M-f C-f C-M-b M-b C-b C-M-f C-M-b C-x C-x C-f 
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n d - a l l SPC ' C-y ) C-j C-v C-] C-z n C-p C-M-b 
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C-M-b C-M-f C-n C-a M-f C-M-f C-M-f C-M-b C-M-f C-o 
<return> C-/ C-/ C-e C-M-b C-M-f C-z n <return> ( m 
a c r M-/ SPC ' ( u p s h SPC C-u C-b C-t C-e z z z 
) ) C-j C-] C-x b q . j <backspace> e <tab> <return> 
<tab> C-g C-x C-f M-r q . e l <return> <return> C-n 
C-p C-SPC C-u C-u C-n C-w ( p u s h SPC z z z ) <return> 
C-x C-s M-x r e p o r t - <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
forward-sexp: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 1057, 1058
Undo! [2 times]
Entering debugger...
Quit
Making completion list...
Quit
Mark set
next-line: End of buffer
Saving file /home/tromey/Emacs/ET/q.el...
Wrote /home/tromey/Emacs/ET/q.el

Load-path shadows:
/home/tromey/.emacs.d/elpa/css-mode-1.0/css-mode hides /home/tromey/Emacs/install/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/textmodes/css-mode
/home/tromey/.emacs.d/elpa/bubbles-0.5/bubbles hides /home/tromey/Emacs/install/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/play/bubbles

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Tom

Message #8 received at 18966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 18966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#18966: 25.0.50; unhelpful error message from byte compiler
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:54:34 +0200

Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com> writes:

> Byte compile this code:
>
> (push zzz)
>
> I get:
>
> q.el:1:1:Error: Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1
>
> This should at least mention "push".

This problem is still present in Emacs 28.

Like in bug#35186, I'm not able to actually chase down where this error
message comes from.  I've tried to look at all the relevant
wrong-number-of-arguments in lisp/emacs-lisp, but it doesn't look like
any of them are responsible.

Anybody knows where this comes from?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #11 received at 18966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 18966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#18966: 25.0.50; unhelpful error message from byte compiler
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:19:55 +0200

On Aug 20 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Like in bug#35186, I'm not able to actually chase down where this error
> message comes from.

It's just a generic macro expansion error:

ELISP> (macroexpand '(push zzz))
*** Eval error ***  Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1
ELISP> (push zzz)
*** Eval error ***  Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1

Andreas.

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Message #14 received at 18966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 18966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#18966: 25.0.50; unhelpful error message from byte compiler
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:20:01 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Aug 20 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Like in bug#35186, I'm not able to actually chase down where this error
>> message comes from.
>
> It's just a generic macro expansion error:
>
> ELISP> (macroexpand '(push zzz))
> *** Eval error ***  Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1
> ELISP> (push zzz)
> *** Eval error ***  Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1

Hm...  I grepped through *.c for the error, and the place where it seems
to actually trigger in the test case:

./src/emacs -Q --batch -f batch-byte-compile /tmp/t.el 
-> /tmp/t.el:3:1: Error: Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 1

Is here:

Lisp_Object
exec_byte_code (Lisp_Object bytestr, Lisp_Object vector, Lisp_Object maxdepth,
		Lisp_Object args_template, ptrdiff_t nargs, Lisp_Object *args)
{
[...]
      if (! (mandatory <= nargs && nargs <= maxargs))
	Fsignal (Qwrong_number_of_arguments,
		 list2 (Fcons (make_fixnum (mandatory), make_fixnum (nonrest)),
			make_fixnum (nargs)));

Which seems odd -- you'd expect it to bug out much earlier, in
macroexpand, as Andreas says.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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