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

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

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>> > 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 That comment is obsolete.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.