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28.0.50; Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:22:32 +0200

This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:

1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
   c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
   also work, this is just for reproducibility).

2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
   ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
   doesn't matter here as well).

3. Visit flycheck.el like so:

   emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
     -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el

4. M-x eval-buffer

5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
   `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.

6. At some point, there will be an error

   edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5

   without invoking the debugger or backtrace.

This looks like a bug in Edebug.


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Message #8 received at 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41853: 28.0.50;
 Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:20:14 +0200

Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
>
> This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
> easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
> code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:
>
> 1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
>    c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
>    also work, this is just for reproducibility).
>
> 2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
>    ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
>    doesn't matter here as well).
>
> 3. Visit flycheck.el like so:
>
>    emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
>      -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el
>
> 4. M-x eval-buffer
>
> 5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
>    `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.
>
> 6. At some point, there will be an error
>
>    edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5
>
>    without invoking the debugger or backtrace.
>
> This looks like a bug in Edebug.
>


The immediate trigger appears to be that in `edebug-slow-after' for
`flycheck--checker-property-name' the AFTER-INDEX is out of range for
the EDEBUG-FREQ-COUNT vector.  I still don't understand why though;
there must be some part in edebug that misinstruments these forms.
The vector [66 86 129 138 139] is likely a vector of offsets, not
frequencies; the vector matches the setter for flycheck-checker-get
quite well. So maybe there's an issue with how edebug instruments
gv-define-setter?

Message #11 received at 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41853: 28.0.50;
 Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:35:36 +0200

Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:20 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
> Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
> > easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
> > code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:
> >
> > 1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
> >    c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
> >    also work, this is just for reproducibility).
> >
> > 2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
> >    ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
> >    doesn't matter here as well).
> >
> > 3. Visit flycheck.el like so:
> >
> >    emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
> >      -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el
> >
> > 4. M-x eval-buffer
> >
> > 5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
> >    `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.
> >
> > 6. At some point, there will be an error
> >
> >    edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5
> >
> >    without invoking the debugger or backtrace.
> >
> > This looks like a bug in Edebug.
> >
>
>
> The immediate trigger appears to be that in `edebug-slow-after' for
> `flycheck--checker-property-name' the AFTER-INDEX is out of range for
> the EDEBUG-FREQ-COUNT vector.  I still don't understand why though;
> there must be some part in edebug that misinstruments these forms.
> The vector [66 86 129 138 139] is likely a vector of offsets, not
> frequencies; the vector matches the setter for flycheck-checker-get
> quite well. So maybe there's an issue with how edebug instruments
> gv-define-setter?

Yup, looks like this is the root of the issue. Minimal example:

$ cat /tmp/a.el
(defun foo (b) b)
(defun my-get (a b) (get a (foo b)))
(gv-define-setter my-get (x a b) `(setf (get ,a (foo ,b)) ,x))
(push 'foo (my-get 'foo 'bar))

$ emacs -Q -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns /tmp/a.el

Then run M-x eval-buffer and hit G three times. Error:
edebug--display: Args out of range: [33 47 55 60 61], 5

Could the problem here be that to find the instrumentation metadata of
SYMBOL edebug uses (get SYMBOL 'edebug), and that it doesn't detect
that the setter for `my-get' is a new entity?

Message #14 received at 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41853: 28.0.50;
 Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:48:39 +0200

Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:35 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
> Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:20 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> >
> > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
> > > easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
> > > code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:
> > >
> > > 1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
> > >    c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
> > >    also work, this is just for reproducibility).
> > >
> > > 2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
> > >    ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
> > >    doesn't matter here as well).
> > >
> > > 3. Visit flycheck.el like so:
> > >
> > >    emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
> > >      -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el
> > >
> > > 4. M-x eval-buffer
> > >
> > > 5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
> > >    `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.
> > >
> > > 6. At some point, there will be an error
> > >
> > >    edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5
> > >
> > >    without invoking the debugger or backtrace.
> > >
> > > This looks like a bug in Edebug.
> > >
> >
> >
> > The immediate trigger appears to be that in `edebug-slow-after' for
> > `flycheck--checker-property-name' the AFTER-INDEX is out of range for
> > the EDEBUG-FREQ-COUNT vector.  I still don't understand why though;
> > there must be some part in edebug that misinstruments these forms.
> > The vector [66 86 129 138 139] is likely a vector of offsets, not
> > frequencies; the vector matches the setter for flycheck-checker-get
> > quite well. So maybe there's an issue with how edebug instruments
> > gv-define-setter?
>
> Yup, looks like this is the root of the issue. Minimal example:
>
> $ cat /tmp/a.el
> (defun foo (b) b)
> (defun my-get (a b) (get a (foo b)))
> (gv-define-setter my-get (x a b) `(setf (get ,a (foo ,b)) ,x))
> (push 'foo (my-get 'foo 'bar))
>
> $ emacs -Q -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns /tmp/a.el
>
> Then run M-x eval-buffer and hit G three times. Error:
> edebug--display: Args out of range: [33 47 55 60 61], 5
>
> Could the problem here be that to find the instrumentation metadata of
> SYMBOL edebug uses (get SYMBOL 'edebug), and that it doesn't detect
> that the setter for `my-get' is a new entity?

So it looks more and more like the implementation of
`edebug-read-and-maybe-wrap-form1' generally doesn't support this use
case well at all. If the Edebug spec is `(&define name...)', then it
appears to blindly assume that the form being instrumented is the only
form defining NAME. That's clearly incorrect as NAME can mean
different kinds of entities depending on what the defining macro
happens to define.
I guess for `gv-define-setter' we can work around this by adding
`:name gv-setter' to the edebug specification, but the issue should be
fixed (or at least detected) in Edebug more generally. Also debugging
this is extremely hard because there's no backtrace etc.

Message #17 received at 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41853: 28.0.50;
 Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:23:02 +0200

Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:48 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
> Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:35 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> >
> > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:20 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
> > > > easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
> > > > code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
> > > >    c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
> > > >    also work, this is just for reproducibility).
> > > >
> > > > 2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
> > > >    ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
> > > >    doesn't matter here as well).
> > > >
> > > > 3. Visit flycheck.el like so:
> > > >
> > > >    emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
> > > >      -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el
> > > >
> > > > 4. M-x eval-buffer
> > > >
> > > > 5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
> > > >    `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.
> > > >
> > > > 6. At some point, there will be an error
> > > >
> > > >    edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5
> > > >
> > > >    without invoking the debugger or backtrace.
> > > >
> > > > This looks like a bug in Edebug.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The immediate trigger appears to be that in `edebug-slow-after' for
> > > `flycheck--checker-property-name' the AFTER-INDEX is out of range for
> > > the EDEBUG-FREQ-COUNT vector.  I still don't understand why though;
> > > there must be some part in edebug that misinstruments these forms.
> > > The vector [66 86 129 138 139] is likely a vector of offsets, not
> > > frequencies; the vector matches the setter for flycheck-checker-get
> > > quite well. So maybe there's an issue with how edebug instruments
> > > gv-define-setter?
> >
> > Yup, looks like this is the root of the issue. Minimal example:
> >
> > $ cat /tmp/a.el
> > (defun foo (b) b)
> > (defun my-get (a b) (get a (foo b)))
> > (gv-define-setter my-get (x a b) `(setf (get ,a (foo ,b)) ,x))
> > (push 'foo (my-get 'foo 'bar))
> >
> > $ emacs -Q -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns /tmp/a.el
> >
> > Then run M-x eval-buffer and hit G three times. Error:
> > edebug--display: Args out of range: [33 47 55 60 61], 5
> >
> > Could the problem here be that to find the instrumentation metadata of
> > SYMBOL edebug uses (get SYMBOL 'edebug), and that it doesn't detect
> > that the setter for `my-get' is a new entity?
>
> So it looks more and more like the implementation of
> `edebug-read-and-maybe-wrap-form1' generally doesn't support this use
> case well at all. If the Edebug spec is `(&define name...)', then it
> appears to blindly assume that the form being instrumented is the only
> form defining NAME. That's clearly incorrect as NAME can mean
> different kinds of entities depending on what the defining macro
> happens to define.
> I guess for `gv-define-setter' we can work around this by adding
> `:name gv-setter' to the edebug specification, but the issue should be
> fixed (or at least detected) in Edebug more generally. Also debugging
> this is extremely hard because there's no backtrace etc.

I've now fixed the gv-setter issue with commit 62cf8f1649, but I'll
leave this bug open to track fixes for this class of issues in
edebug.el, as well as debuggability improvements.

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41853: 28.0.50;
 Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:40:33 +0200

Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 18:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
> Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:48 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> >
> > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:35 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:20 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > > > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
> > > > > easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
> > > > > code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
> > > > >    c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
> > > > >    also work, this is just for reproducibility).
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
> > > > >    ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
> > > > >    doesn't matter here as well).
> > > > >
> > > > > 3. Visit flycheck.el like so:
> > > > >
> > > > >    emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
> > > > >      -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el
> > > > >
> > > > > 4. M-x eval-buffer
> > > > >
> > > > > 5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
> > > > >    `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.
> > > > >
> > > > > 6. At some point, there will be an error
> > > > >
> > > > >    edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5
> > > > >
> > > > >    without invoking the debugger or backtrace.
> > > > >
> > > > > This looks like a bug in Edebug.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The immediate trigger appears to be that in `edebug-slow-after' for
> > > > `flycheck--checker-property-name' the AFTER-INDEX is out of range for
> > > > the EDEBUG-FREQ-COUNT vector.  I still don't understand why though;
> > > > there must be some part in edebug that misinstruments these forms.
> > > > The vector [66 86 129 138 139] is likely a vector of offsets, not
> > > > frequencies; the vector matches the setter for flycheck-checker-get
> > > > quite well. So maybe there's an issue with how edebug instruments
> > > > gv-define-setter?
> > >
> > > Yup, looks like this is the root of the issue. Minimal example:
> > >
> > > $ cat /tmp/a.el
> > > (defun foo (b) b)
> > > (defun my-get (a b) (get a (foo b)))
> > > (gv-define-setter my-get (x a b) `(setf (get ,a (foo ,b)) ,x))
> > > (push 'foo (my-get 'foo 'bar))
> > >
> > > $ emacs -Q -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns /tmp/a.el
> > >
> > > Then run M-x eval-buffer and hit G three times. Error:
> > > edebug--display: Args out of range: [33 47 55 60 61], 5
> > >
> > > Could the problem here be that to find the instrumentation metadata of
> > > SYMBOL edebug uses (get SYMBOL 'edebug), and that it doesn't detect
> > > that the setter for `my-get' is a new entity?
> >
> > So it looks more and more like the implementation of
> > `edebug-read-and-maybe-wrap-form1' generally doesn't support this use
> > case well at all. If the Edebug spec is `(&define name...)', then it
> > appears to blindly assume that the form being instrumented is the only
> > form defining NAME. That's clearly incorrect as NAME can mean
> > different kinds of entities depending on what the defining macro
> > happens to define.
> > I guess for `gv-define-setter' we can work around this by adding
> > `:name gv-setter' to the edebug specification, but the issue should be
> > fixed (or at least detected) in Edebug more generally. Also debugging
> > this is extremely hard because there's no backtrace etc.
>
> I've now fixed the gv-setter issue with commit 62cf8f1649, but I'll
> leave this bug open to track fixes for this class of issues in
> edebug.el, as well as debuggability improvements.

There are a couple similar bugs in Edebug. For example, there's code
to ensure that nested named functions (cl-letf etc.) don't clash with
each other, but that doesn't actually work. For example, edebugging
the definition
  (defun foo () (cl-flet ((bar ())) 1))
results in the messages
  Edebug: bar
  Edebug: foo
which is wrong because "bar" is local, so the symbol should be "foo <at> bar".

Message #23 received at 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 41853 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41853: 28.0.50;
 Peculiar "args out of range" error when using Edebug
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:38:34 +0200

Am So., 21. Juni 2020 um 15:40 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
> Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 18:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> >
> > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:48 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:35 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 17:20 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > > > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > > > >
> > > > > Am So., 14. Juni 2020 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > > > > <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This error is somewhat common when using `edebug-all-defuns'.  It's not
> > > > > > easy to reproduce with a minimal example, but happens in real-world
> > > > > > code.  For example, the following recipe works for me consistently:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1. Clone the Flycheck repository at commit
> > > > > >    c02cd773dded0215f9417ec04dfe8dabda63ef43 (probably most other commits
> > > > > >    also work, this is just for reproducibility).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2. Clone the dash.el repository at commit
> > > > > >    ea4a4cc7cce7c3b93862a22df8bca8b83052ccbf (probably the exact commit
> > > > > >    doesn't matter here as well).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 3. Visit flycheck.el like so:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    emacs -Q -L /src/dash.el/ -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns \
> > > > > >      -f toggle-debug-on-error flycheck.el
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 4. M-x eval-buffer
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 5. Step through macro expansions using the `G' key.  Repeat until
> > > > > >    `eval-buffer' is complete or has signalled and error.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 6. At some point, there will be an error
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    edebug--display: Args out of range: [66 86 129 138 139], 5
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    without invoking the debugger or backtrace.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This looks like a bug in Edebug.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The immediate trigger appears to be that in `edebug-slow-after' for
> > > > > `flycheck--checker-property-name' the AFTER-INDEX is out of range for
> > > > > the EDEBUG-FREQ-COUNT vector.  I still don't understand why though;
> > > > > there must be some part in edebug that misinstruments these forms.
> > > > > The vector [66 86 129 138 139] is likely a vector of offsets, not
> > > > > frequencies; the vector matches the setter for flycheck-checker-get
> > > > > quite well. So maybe there's an issue with how edebug instruments
> > > > > gv-define-setter?
> > > >
> > > > Yup, looks like this is the root of the issue. Minimal example:
> > > >
> > > > $ cat /tmp/a.el
> > > > (defun foo (b) b)
> > > > (defun my-get (a b) (get a (foo b)))
> > > > (gv-define-setter my-get (x a b) `(setf (get ,a (foo ,b)) ,x))
> > > > (push 'foo (my-get 'foo 'bar))
> > > >
> > > > $ emacs -Q -l edebug -f edebug-all-defuns /tmp/a.el
> > > >
> > > > Then run M-x eval-buffer and hit G three times. Error:
> > > > edebug--display: Args out of range: [33 47 55 60 61], 5
> > > >
> > > > Could the problem here be that to find the instrumentation metadata of
> > > > SYMBOL edebug uses (get SYMBOL 'edebug), and that it doesn't detect
> > > > that the setter for `my-get' is a new entity?
> > >
> > > So it looks more and more like the implementation of
> > > `edebug-read-and-maybe-wrap-form1' generally doesn't support this use
> > > case well at all. If the Edebug spec is `(&define name...)', then it
> > > appears to blindly assume that the form being instrumented is the only
> > > form defining NAME. That's clearly incorrect as NAME can mean
> > > different kinds of entities depending on what the defining macro
> > > happens to define.
> > > I guess for `gv-define-setter' we can work around this by adding
> > > `:name gv-setter' to the edebug specification, but the issue should be
> > > fixed (or at least detected) in Edebug more generally. Also debugging
> > > this is extremely hard because there's no backtrace etc.
> >
> > I've now fixed the gv-setter issue with commit 62cf8f1649, but I'll
> > leave this bug open to track fixes for this class of issues in
> > edebug.el, as well as debuggability improvements.
>
> There are a couple similar bugs in Edebug. For example, there's code
> to ensure that nested named functions (cl-letf etc.) don't clash with
> each other, but that doesn't actually work. For example, edebugging
> the definition
>   (defun foo () (cl-flet ((bar ())) 1))
> results in the messages
>   Edebug: bar
>   Edebug: foo
> which is wrong because "bar" is local, so the symbol should be "foo <at> bar".

However, even that isn't enough because `foo' could contain multiple
non-overlapping definitions of `bar'. So probably this should use a
similar strategy as cl-macrolet, i.e. generate a unique name.

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