Re: Docstring hack

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:14:10 -0400
>> 
>> The core emacs lisp libraries are riddled with strings that are erroneously 
>> treated as docstrings in dump
>> mode, which causes problems in the build when, say, format gets a 0 as its 
>> template string in a macro
>> expansion.  
>
> Please show several examples, as I don't think I understand the issue
> well enough to have an opinion.
>
> Thanks.

I think the problem is this:

  (format <control string starting with escaped newline> args...)

will result in (format 0 args...) during dumping.

To be honest, I don't see the importance of the issue.  We only have to
make sure such code never exists in code loaded prior to dumping.