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30.0.50; compiler falsely complains missing ‘describe-char-display’

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 61457 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61457: 30.0.50; compiler falsely complains missing ‘describe-char-display’
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:51:45 +0100

Don't understand why `symbol-function' of `help-fns--analyze-function' 
knows about it, but compiler and REPL not.

Am 12.02.23 um 20:21 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:55:08 +0100
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
>>
>> when running ‘M-x byte-compile-file RET’ with the following form in it,
>>
>> ---
>> (describe-char-display (point) (char-after))
>> ---
>>
>> compiler complains:
>>
>> ---
>> In end of data:
>> foo.el:6831:17: Warning: the function ‘describe-char-display’ is not known
>>       to be defined.
> Which is correct: you need to (require 'descr-text).
>
>> Whereas ‘M-x describe-function RET’ tells correctly:
>>
>> ---
>> describe-char-display is a byte-compiled Lisp function in
>> ‘descr-text.el’.
>>
>> (describe-char-display POS CHAR)
> Which is also correct.
>
> So what is it that you are complaining about here?

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