GNU bug report logs - #7001
should `byte-compile-from-buffer' evaluate `binary-overwrite-mode' explicitly?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:00:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 7001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monkey <at> sandpframing.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#7001: should `byte-compile-from-buffer'
	evaluate	`binary-overwrite-mode' explicitly?
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:32:15 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>>
>> > Most likely this line can be removed from bytecomp.el.
>>
>> The comments in bytecomp.el say this is needed for DOS.
>
> That comment is obsolete.  All file I/O works in binary mode on DOS
> and Windows since at least 15 years ago.

Wow, that's some history ;-)  I've removed the line; thanks.
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 238 days ago.

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