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23.1.50; Error byte-compiling big conditional

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Aemon Cannon <aemoncannon <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Error byte-compiling big conditional
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:35:13 -0400

Received the following error:
bytecomp-bug.el:9:4:Error: Args out of range: 312, 0, 255

When byte-compiling a file with the following elisp:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

(defmacro many-forms ()
  (let ((body '()))
    (dotimes (i 20000)
      (setq body (cons '(message "more") body)))
    `(progn ,@body)))

(if (eq 1 a)
    (many-forms)
  (message "else"))

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Suspect a byte overflow at line 856 in bytecomp.el
The argument of a goto is bigger than 16 bits.



In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1)
 of 2009-07-31 on lansones, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20090730-1~jaunty1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10600000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host'
'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN
-DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed'
'CPPFLAGS=''

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  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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Message #10 received at 4251 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Aemon Cannon <aemoncannon <at> gmail.com>
To: 4251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Another failure case..
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:24:18 -0400

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The following fails with the same error:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

(defmacro many-forms ()
  (let ((body '()))
    (dotimes (i 20000)
      (setq body (cons '(message "more") body)))
    `(progn ,@body)))

(many-forms)

(if (eq 1 a)
    (message "dude")
  (message "else"))

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

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Message #15 received at 4251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: aemoncannon <at> gmail.com
Cc: 4251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another failure case..
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:19:08 +0200

Aemon Cannon <aemoncannon <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The following fails with the same error:
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> (defmacro many-forms ()
>   (let ((body '()))
>     (dotimes (i 20000)
>       (setq body (cons '(message "more") body)))
>     `(progn ,@body)))
>
> (many-forms)
>
> (if (eq 1 a)
>     (message "dude")
>   (message "else"))

I can confirm that this bug is still present in Emacs 24.

-- 
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Message #20 received at 4251-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: aemoncannon <at> gmail.com, 4251-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4251: Another failure case..
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:34:51 +0200

Overflow check fixed.

Andreas.

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