GNU bug report logs - #55972
28.1; Package quickstart generated for large number of packages generates byte-code string larger than 64K, triggering bytecode overflow error

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>, 55972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lynn Winebarger <owinebar <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#55972: 28.1; Package quickstart generated for large number of packages generates byte-code string larger than 64K, triggering bytecode overflow error
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:37:50 -0700

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> For instance, `magit` generates a 5 KiB bytecode chunk and 750-element
>> constant vector which is perfectly manageable, but a package with more
>> autoloads may be troublesome. Do you know a package that would fit
>> the description?
>
> I suspect none.  I suspect in the case of Magit the magit-autoloads.el
> file is actually too large for its own good: it should probably be split
> into autoloads that "face outside" (i.e. those that need to be defined
> before Magit is used) from those facing inside (those that are needed
> for internal lazy loading).

Copying in Jonas, in case he has any comments.

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