GNU bug report logs - #21963
Spurious byte compile message: "Warning: the function `bar' might not be defined at runtime."

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:50:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 21963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 21963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21963: Spurious byte compile message: "Warning: the function
 `bar' might not be defined at runtime."
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:44:56 -0800

>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> 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
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