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25.0.93; Visiting C files on master signals an error

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Message #17 received at 23476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 23476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#23476: 25.0.93; Visiting C files on master signals an error
Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 21:19:13 +0300

> Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 17:50:30 +0000
> Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>, 23476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> > Thanks.  This eliminates the error, but not the annoying question
> > about unsafe variables.
> 
> The annoying question, you only need to answer once (with !).  The
> setting eliminates the annoying misfontification of the constructs using
> the IF_LINT macro, e.g. in window.c, in the following:
> 
>     int top IF_LINT (= 0), ...
> 
> , top now gets correctly fontified as a variable declaration, not as a
> function declaration, as still happens in the emacs-25 branch.

No, I'd like that question to go away completely.  Visiting Emacs
sources shouldn't trigger such questions, IMO it's absurd.

> To be fair, I did warn everybody about this in a post to emacs-devl on
> 2016-04-30.

Why warn?  Just let's not do it at all.

Thanks.

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