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defadvice in byte compiled file does not work

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, "Berndl, Klaus" <klaus.berndl <at> capgemini-sdm.com>
Cc: 5863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5863: defadvice in byte compiled file does not work
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:22:14 +0200

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The info page I pointed to says that defadvice should work for
>>> primitives called from lisp code.
>>
>> The primitive is no longer called from lisp code when byte compiled.
>
>
> I think that is wrong. Can you point me to something that support your
> statement?


Looking a bit at the Emacs sources I can see that at least follow.el,
tramp.el, uniquify.el, ada-mode.el, viper.el do defadvice primitives.

It is a bit ironic that those defadvice "inside Emacs" works and not
those made "outside of Emacs" ... ;-)

BTW, is not ECB dependent on this to work too?

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