Re: suppressing byte-compiler warnings about undefined functions

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

  > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:55:08PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
  > > 
  > > Here's an attempt at a method to allow for suppressing of
  > > byte-compiler warnings about undefined functions.
  >  
  > > I haven't yet written the function to check that functions are
  > > actually defined in the specified files, but I imagine it would be
  > > straightforward.
  >  
  > As a matter of interest, there has been this sort of functionality in
  > cc-bytecomp.el (written by Martin Stjernholm) for some time.  In
  > particular, `cc-bytecomp-defun' and `cc-bytecomp-defvar', whose prime
  > use is suppressing compiler warnings.

What is the advantage of (cc-bytecomp-defvar VARIABLE) over plain
(defvar VARIABLE)? 

  > It might be sensible to reuse this.

Would that be possible without editing all elisp files in emacs?