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31.0.50; Unexpected warnings about recursive occurrences of obsolete functions

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Cc: 73881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73881: 31.0.50; Unexpected warnings about recursive occurrences of obsolete functions
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:34:31 +0300

> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:21:22 +0200
> From:  Eshel Yaron via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. (require 'allout) or otherwise load allout.el
> 3. Byte-compile allout.el with M-x byte-compile-file
> 4. See warnings:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> In allout-old-expose-topic:
> allout.el:5092:29: Warning: ‘allout-old-expose-topic’ is an obsolete function
>     (as of 28.1); use ‘allout-expose-topic’ instead.
> allout.el:5097:44: Warning: ‘allout-old-expose-topic’ is an obsolete function
>     (as of 28.1); use ‘allout-expose-topic’ instead.
> allout.el:5106:8: Warning: ‘allout-old-expose-topic’ is an obsolete function
>     (as of 28.1); use ‘allout-expose-topic’ instead.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> These warnings are unhelpful since these are recursive calls within the
> definition of the obsolete function itself.  They need not be replaced
> with another function as the warnings suggest.  Ideally, recursive calls
> to obsolete functions should not produce such warnings.

From where I stand, this could be closed as wontfix, unless someone
sees an easy fix.  I don't see any harm from emitting these warnings
in this scenario.  The warnings are correct.

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