Re: On removing some obsolete code from subr and core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 09:50:05 -0400
> Cc: Emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> > Why do we need to remove buffer_defaults? Once it is not exposed to
> > Lisp as variables, what's the harm?
> 
> None aside from (presumably) dead code.

It's not dead code at all.  It's how Emacs knows the default value of
every variable that can become buffer-local, and that's how it can
initialize every new buffer with those default values.  I don't see
how we could remove that.