Re: [PATCH] Delayed loading of image libraries

[Miles Bader]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
> Sure.  But currently, an Emacs supporting PNG *will* display a PNG if
> the library is made available (either statically or dynamically).  Miles
> thinks (or so I understand) that the responsability of making the
> library available rests on lookup_image_type.

I have no particular opinion about which exact function does it, but it
_should_ be done `transparently' -- that is any place where a lisp value
is used to compute deeper information (for display or otherwise).

Two important functions for that are `valid_image_p' (called by all
sorts of image-manipulation functions), and `lookup_image' (called by
the display engine).  Both of those call `lookup_image_type', and thus
my placing a call to image-type-validation there.

If I omitted an argument, obviously my change was flawed, but the
location seems reasonable.

-Miles
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