GNU bug report logs - #29165
26.0.90; can't use some code byte-compiled under emacs 24

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn <at> permabit.com>

Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 06:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in versions 26.1, 26.0.90

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #49 received at 29165 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn <at> permabit.com>
Cc: 29165 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug#29165: 26.0.90;
 can't use some code byte-compiled under emacs 24
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:05:09 -0500

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Ken Raeburn <raeburn <at> permabit.com> wrote:

> But even if we do make it an error, isn’t there usually a stage where it’s just a warning?

Maybe. There hasn't been this time (for plain defun, I mean).

> (And if we’re going to make that sort of thing an error, we should probably check whether empty &key or &aux variable lists are similarly rejected.  I haven’t looked.)

I believe empty &key would be tested in my patch, though not &aux.

> If the source isn’t going to be rejected (e.g., if it’s quietly accepted or only produces a warning), then the byte-code for it probably ought not to be rejected.

Yes, that's why my patch rejects the source as well.
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