GNU bug report logs - #48135
27.1.91; standard-display-table incorrectly initialized in byte compiled code?

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Reported by: Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw <at> nwalsh.com>

Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 11:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 27.1.91

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ndw <at> nwalsh.com, 48135 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48135: 27.1.91; standard-display-table incorrectly initialized in byte compiled code?
Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 12:22:46 +0000

>> A simple workaround is to (require 'disp-table).
>
> Why isn't that a solution?  IOW, why not request that code which does 
> this needs to require disp-table?
>

Yes, I said "workaround", I could have said "solution" ;-)  It makes sense 
indeed to request a require disp-table in such cases, but OTOH I 
understand that seeing byte-compiled code behaving differently from the 
non-byte-compiled one is surprising.
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