bug#5863: defadvice in byte compiled file does not work

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The info page I pointed to says that defadvice should work for
>>> primitives called from lisp code.
>>
>> The primitive is no longer called from lisp code when byte compiled.
>
>
> I think that is wrong. Can you point me to something that support your
> statement?


Looking a bit at the Emacs sources I can see that at least follow.el,
tramp.el, uniquify.el, ada-mode.el, viper.el do defadvice primitives.

It is a bit ironic that those defadvice "inside Emacs" works and not
those made "outside of Emacs" ... ;-)

BTW, is not ECB dependent on this to work too?