Re: byte-compile / cl package / warnings

[Pascal Bourguignon]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I often get warnings like
>
> "Function `set-difference' from cl package
>      called at runtime"
>
> when byte-compiling stuff.
>
> Isn't it safe to call stuff from the cl package from byte-compiled code?
> I looked into the byte-compile source, and I found that the cl
> package documentation says that it's safe to require 'cl.
>
> So why do I get this warning, and do I need to react?

Yes:
1- send an email to rms@gnu.org complaining about this.
2- edit the sources of emacs to remove this warning.
3- send in a patch.


When RMS will have recevied 10,000 identical patches from 10,000
different complaining users, perhaps he'll include it.

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