Re: Problems with advice...

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> I have the problem that preactivated advice no longer gets
> preactivated.  However, the same problem occurs now with a current
> compilation of Emacs-21.3!  So I suspect that it might be
> compiler-related (gcc-4.0).  It worked at one point of time in the
> past.

Update on that: seemingly related to loading a completely unrelated
package (that does a "require" on the file containing the function to
be advised), so not a compiler error after all.  I have to debug this
further.

In the mean time, the following finding still looks bad:

> Whatever.  In the search for the problem I have also come across the
> following code snippet in advice.el:
>
>                   ((and orig-subr-p
>                         orig-interactive-p
>                         (not interactive-form)
>                         (not advised-interactive-form))
>                    ;; Check whether we were called interactively
>                    ;; in order to do proper prompting:
>                    `(if (called-interactively-p)
>                         (call-interactively ',origname)
>                       ,(ad-make-mapped-call orig-arglist
>                                             advised-arglist
>                                             origname)))
>                   ;; And now for normal functions and non-interactive subrs
>                   ;; (or subrs whose interactive behavior was advised):
>                   (t (ad-make-mapped-call
>                       advised-arglist orig-arglist origname)))))
>
> This looks so wrong that I want somebody with more of a clue to take a
> look at it: ad-make-mapped-call is called in two branches of a cond,
> and the order of its first two arguments is interchanged in those two
> calls!

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum