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-rw-r--r--lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
index a4f26efa027..51006d7c471 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
@@ -1147,10 +1147,13 @@ Each function's symbol gets added to `byte-compile-noruntime-functions'."
(byte-compile-warn "%s" msg)))))
(defun byte-compile-report-error (error-info)
- "Report Lisp error in compilation. ERROR-INFO is the error data."
+ "Report Lisp error in compilation.
+ERROR-INFO is the error data, in the form of either (ERROR-SYMBOL . DATA)
+or STRING."
(setq byte-compiler-error-flag t)
(byte-compile-log-warning
- (error-message-string error-info)
+ (if (stringp error-info) error-info
+ (error-message-string error-info))
nil :error))
;;; sanity-checking arglists