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Spurious bytecomp warning "reference to free variable" when variable defined in required library without an initvalue

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Hoffman <fklv2wf02 <at> sneakemail.com>
Cc: 11928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11928: Spurious bytecomp warning "reference to free variable" when variable defined in required library without an initvalue
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:21:55 -0400

Michael Hoffman wrote:

> outer.el:5:3:Warning: reference to free variable `inner-a'
> Wrote /net/noble/vol2/home/mmh1/src/experimental/bytecode2/outer.elc
> ====
>
> I expected there to be no warning, as there is no warning for the
> reference of inner-b, which has an initvalue (t).

defvar with no initvalue does not define the variable, it just silences
compilation warnings when the containing file is compiled. But inner.el
is not being compiled.

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