Re: Docstring hack

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:38:13 -0400
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
>  >   (format <control string starting with escaped newline> args...)
>  > 
>  > will result in (format 0 args...) during dumping.
> 
>  "Result" in what sense?
> 
> As in, if you load emacs-lisp/eieio-core in site-load.el with dump-mode pdump 
> without having byte-compiled
> eieio-core first, the load cedet/semantic/loaddefs.el, you will get a cryptic 
> error message stating stringp: 0 is
> not a string.  And upon investigation, the closure for def-eieio-autoload 
> mysteriously has a "(format 0
> cname)" in the code, even though it's not 0 in the eieio-core source code.

Does this happen with any package we actually preload via loadup.el?