bug#636: Please fix before the release of 23.1

[Michael Olson]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

> Indeed. If we agree that the bug is in cc-defs.el, then the following
> patch should fix it:
>
> --- progmodes/cc-defs.el      27 Jun 2008 21:12:46 -0000      1.58
> +++ progmodes/cc-defs.el      11 Aug 2008 07:11:04 -0000
> @@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@
>      (let ((beginning-of-defun-function
>          (lambda (&optional arg)
>            (not (eq arg nil)))))
> -      (if (beginning-of-defun 1)
> +      (if (save-excursion (beginning-of-defun 1))
>         (setq list (cons 'argumentative-bod-function list))))
>
>      (let ((buf (generate-new-buffer " test"))

This patch fixes the problem for me as well.  It's interesting that
evaluating a top-level defconst definition can screw up the
byte-compiler though ... would it make sense for the byte-compiler to
automatically do a save-excursion around the processing of each
top-level form in a given file?

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