Subject: bug#56744: 29.0.50; "Autoloaded" information lost in native compilation?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:56:22 +0300

Andrea,

Could you please take a look at this year-old bug report?

> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:10:03 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
>   emacs -Q
>   C-h f rmail-movemail-variant-p RET
> 
> (or any other autoloaded function).  Assuming that the function's .el
> file was already natively compiled to produce a .eln file, the
> "autoloaded" part will not be shown in the *Help* buffer, Emacs will
> only say that this is a native-compiled function.
> 
> Is it possible to resurrect this information from natively-compiled
> Lisp code?  If not, what would have to be done to include this
> information (and how does auto-loading works if the information is
> lost in the first place)?
> 
> In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1551, i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2022-07-24 built on HOME-C4E4A596F7
> Repository revision: 9ed5c39aad09571314097be91cb28e7504614421
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> System Description: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v5.1.0.2600)
> 
> Configured using:
>  'configure -C --prefix=/d/usr --with-wide-int
>  --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -gdwarf-4 -g3''
> 
> Configured features:
> ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY
> W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP XPM ZLIB
> 
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   locale-coding-system: cp1255
> 
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   eldoc-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   indent-tabs-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired
> dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068
> epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode
> mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
> cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
> mail-prsvr mail-utils rmc iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel dos-w32
> ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win
> tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace
> newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar
> rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
> font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq
> simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang
> misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms
> cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
> cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table
> epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button
> loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay
> sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
> hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty
> make-network-process emacs)
> 
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 42025 11925)
>  (symbols 48 6230 1)
>  (strings 16 16688 2023)
>  (string-bytes 1 454620)
>  (vectors 16 9212)
>  (vector-slots 8 143809 14713)
>  (floats 8 23 45)
>  (intervals 40 268 2)
>  (buffers 888 10))
> 
> 
> 
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