Subject: Re: bug#6740: Spurious byte compiler warnings

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:00:11 -0400

Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 21:45, Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>>
>>    "`(featurep 'xemacs)' has been translated to nil"
>
> ????
>
> That's worse that what you're complaining now; every use of (featurep
> 'xemacs) in the sources would produce warnings!

Exactly, and it would defeat the purpose of optimizing away 
(featurp 'xemacs) (and (featurep 'emacs): being able to have a single source base that 
works on both platforms, and it can be compiled warning free.