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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.3-beta10 "Athens" is released
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
>> At Ben Wing's direction, I was going to remove the LOSING_BYTECODE code
>> which apparently allows some strange feature where compiled bytecode
>> objects can be referenced as a vector.  *A lot* of code breaks (at a
>> minimum EFS, AUCTeX, W3, Ilisp, Hyperbole, Edebug, CC-mode, strokes and
>> VM), so I backed it out at the last minute, and now have no intention
>> of ever taking it out.

> Have you investigated why they break?  LOSING_BYTECODE looks like a
> horrible kludge to me.

There wasn't any time to go into it in great depth.  I poked around a
bit and didn't see anything obvious.  I was hoping one of the package
authors could shed some light on what exactly is going.  This is a
feature I'm totally unfamiliar with.
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steve@calag.com baur
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