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Re: Opcode Versioning Was: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: numbe
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Opcode Versioning Was: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p |
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Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:11:18 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Sam Steingold [2022-08-04 10:59:46] wrote:
>> Emacs instead aims to be able to keep loading old byte-compiled files
>> so we try hard to change the byte-codes only in ways which are
>> backward compatible.
> This is a very noble aim.
> Does it ever happen that Emacs breaks byte-codes as a design decision?
IIRC we did drop some byte-codes, yes. Most of them are byte-codes
which had never been generated by our byte-compiler, but I think there
were a few other cases where we judged that it had been enough years.
> Or is Emacs _supposed_ to be able to load ELC from 1990?
More or less but not really: even if the byte code itself should
probably work, it's likely to bump into incompatible changes in
the functions we define (or fail to).
Stefan
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, (continued)
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Gregory Heytings, 2022/08/01
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/01
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Andreas Schwab, 2022/08/01
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Julien Cubizolles, 2022/08/07
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Andreas Schwab, 2022/08/01
- Opcode Versioning Was: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Sam Steingold, 2022/08/02
- Re: Opcode Versioning Was: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Stefan Monnier, 2022/08/02
- Re: Opcode Versioning Was: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Sam Steingold, 2022/08/04
- Re: Opcode Versioning Was: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Po Lu, 2022/08/02
emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/08/01
Re: emacs master + org Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/08/01