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From: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
To: 6996@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6996: Acknowledgement (`byte-compile-report-ops', `byte-code-meter', `byte-metering-on', what are they?)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 03:30:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinSwe0FJfF_8SodRZAgcYAQE2vnF77HkyF2XMM5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <handler.6996.B.128389509415467.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>

> I have no idea what it does,

If you don't I doubt few others do either, maybe Jim Blandy?

> but since it is not on by default since 1991,

That's nearly 20 years ago!

> and is not documented anywhere, I don't see it as a bug if it
> doesn't do whatever it is supposed to do.

Its a bug b/c bytecomp.el exposes/provides it.

> At the worst it is dead code that could be deleted.

At the very least there must be _some_ reason the code has
persisted... Hence, my tepid curiosity.

--
/s_P\





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 21:33 bug#6996: `byte-compile-report-ops', `byte-code-meter', `byte-metering-on', what are they? MON KEY
2010-09-07 23:29 ` Glenn Morris
     [not found] ` <handler.6996.B.128389509415467.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2010-09-08  7:30   ` MON KEY [this message]
2010-09-08  9:15     ` bug#6996: Acknowledgement (`byte-compile-report-ops', `byte-code-meter', `byte-metering-on', what are they?) Stefan Monnier

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