bug#64526: 30.0.50; jit-compilation and multiple function definitions

[Andrea Corallo]

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

> Package: Emacs
> Version: 30.0.50
>
>
> Say you have a file ~/tmp/foo.el:
>
>     ;;  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
>     (defun sm-foo1 (a) (list a 1))
>     (defun sm-foo1 (a) (list a 2))
>
> which you byte-compile into ~/tmp/foo.elc, and then you do:
>
>     emacs -Q -l ~/tmp/foo
>     M-: (sm-foo1 'a) RET
>
> you'll usually get `(a 2)` (and that's what we expect).  But if you enable
> native compilation and erase the `eln-cache` before trying it out you
> may get `(a 1)` because when the `.eln` file is reloaded on top of the
> `.elc` definitions, `comp--late-register-subr` will skip the second
> definition :-(

Hi Stefan,

are we sure about this? Is this reproducible?

Thanks

  Andrea

> I suspect similar problems can occur when the two definitions are placed
> in different files (and those files are loaded "at the same time",
> i.e. the second file is loaded before the native-compilation of the
> first file finishes) since `comp-deferred-pending-h` does not pay
> attention to the file names.  :-(
>
>
>         Stefan