Subject: Re: bug#21963: Spurious byte compile message: "Warning: the function `bar' might not be defined at runtime."

From: John Wiegley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:44:56 -0800

>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]> writes:

> While eval-when-compile'ing the first line, the byte compiler collects a
> list of symbols defined by it (in variable
> byte-compile-noruntime-functions). More or less.

> There is no mechanism for taking symbols off of that list when they
> subsequently become defined.

Not optimal, but I must ask: Should it be fixed? Or, for now, simply noted in
the elisp manual when discussing the merits of this warning?

John