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defadvice in byte compiled file does not work

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Message #47 received at 5863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Andreas Schwab' <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: RE: bug#5863: defadvice in byte compiled file does not work
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:37:55 -0700

> > The info page I pointed to says that defadvice should work for
> > primitives called from lisp code.  And that is what does 
> > not work for me here.
> 
> For such uses, there are several categories of functions:
> - functions that have their own byte-code (things like widen, 
> car, cdr, ...).
> - functions that are implemented in C but don't have their own
>   byte-code.
> - other functions.
> 
> Pieces of advice on the first kind of functions only work for
> calls from interpreted Lisp code.
> Pieces of advice on the second kind of functions only work for
> calls from Lisp code (both interpreted and byte-compiled).

Please document the behavior in the manual, not just here. Thx.

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