Re: byte compiler warnings when bootstrapping

[Richard Stallman]

I would like to do something to silence the manu "function is not
known to be defined" warnings that don't correspond to anything wrong.  But
loading another file just for that is too drastic for the purpose.

Perhaps we should add a construct

  (treat-as-defined FILE foo bar)

which would tell the compiler not to warn in this file
about calls to foo and bar -- and have no other effect.

Some special program could scan the sources looking for all these
statements, and then verify that FILE really does define foo and bar.
This could be run during the build process, but not during ordinary
byte compilation.