Subject: bug#7001: should `byte-compile-from-buffer' evaluate `binary-overwrite-mode' explicitly?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:02:44 +0200

> Has this form:
>  (setq overwrite-mode 'overwrite-mode-binary)
> Should this evalatate `binary-overwrite-mode'  from simple.el instead?

Probably not, since that would run binary-overwrite-mode-hook.
Most likely this line can be removed from bytecomp.el.

        Stefan