Re: Towards a cleaner build

[Stefan Monnier]

> Oooh.  Huh.  Isn't that...  a bug?  :-)  I mean -- the reference to the
> variable isn't in the compiled code, so shouldn't the analysis catch
> that and still warn about the variable?

That's the usual tension with warnings: OT1H you want warnings to be
about the source code rather than about the compiled/optimized code, but
then you also don't want warning about things which the programmer knows
will be optimized away (e.g. within a (featurep 'xemacs) branch), so
ordering of "warning-detection" and optimization phases is
sometimes delicate.  For `ignore` things just happen to work.


        Stefan