Re: master bf21025: * lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el: Remember location of unresolved calls

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

monnier@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) writes:

> branch: master
> commit bf210251eadafafd1bf4176127b872030405baa3
> Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Commit: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>
>     * lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el: Remember location of unresolved calls
>     
>     I've gotten tired of seeing the "function foo not known to be defined"
>     warning without any line number information.  So this patch adds as
>     line number the position of the first use of that function in the file
>     (well, approximately, as usual).
>     
>     (byte-compile-unresolved-functions): Add POSITIONs in the alist.
>     (byte-compile-function-warn): Store the current position in
>     `byte-compile-unresolved-functions`.
>     (byte-compile-arglist-warn): Adjust accordingly.
>     (byte-compile-print-syms): Delete unused function.
>     (byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions): Use the stored position
>     to give more precise warnings.

Does that mean this part can be removed, or are its side effects still
needed somewhere?

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
index 0babbbb978..dd8d15e167 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
@@ -2190,9 +2190,6 @@ byte-compile-from-buffer
            (byte-compile-toplevel-file-form form)))
        ;; Compile pending forms at end of file.
        (byte-compile-flush-pending)
-       ;; Make warnings about unresolved functions
-       ;; give the end of the file as their position.
-       (setq byte-compile-last-position (point-max))
        (byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions)))
      byte-compile--outbuffer)))
 

BTW, would we like the effect of declare-function to be local to its
lexical scope?  Would this be feasible?

I guess we'd need a new var to keep track of unresolved fns per scope,
and merge its remaining contents with the global unresolved and
noruntime lists when popping scope, or something like that?

My motivating example is, had I declared tab-bar-height within
frame-notice-user-settings for --without-x builds, then that would have
shadowed its later unqualified use in frame-inner-height, leaving
bug#47234 unnoticed.  (Of course the same would be true if the
declaration were at top-level.)

Remembering to support a variety of build configurations is already
tricky enough, so maybe this will help prevent some subset of bugs.  Or
would it not be worth the effort?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil