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Allow searching compressed C sources for `find-function'

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Felipe Ochoa <felipe.nospam.ochoa <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30888: Allow searching compressed C sources for `find-function'
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 20:50:48 +0200

Felipe Ochoa <felipe.nospam.ochoa <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This patch makes the handling of compressed sources consistent between C
> functions and lisp functions (for which `find-function' already supports
> compression).

I guess that makes sense, and the implementation looks OK to me, but
what's the use case?  The reason `find-function' does look into .el.gz
files is that on some (many?) distributions, the .el files in Emacs are
distributed with Emacs (sometimes in a separate package), but in .gz
form.

I've never seen gzipped .c files in the wild -- is that something that's
done?

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