Re: address@hidden: RE:weirddefadvicebugwithbyte-compilation]

[Johan Bockgård]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

    [ad-default-compilation-action]

> The default value is `maybe', and that's the value I had. The doc
> string says that that means that activation will also compile - if
> the byte-compiler is already loaded. I have no idea what loads the
> byte compiler, or why its being loaded would be the criterion
> applied here, but I must assume that in my case it was already
> loaded, and that that is the default situation (?).

The byte-compiler is not loaded by default. The (defadvice ...
(... compile)...) in bar.el makes the difference.

> But I guess the `compile' FLAG for defadvice acts like the COMPILE
> arg to ad-activate in this regard (not mentioned in the doc string).
> Is that correct?

It seems so. 

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Johan Bockgård