Re: DEFU* macro name for a extern DEFUN: DEFUE? DEFUNEX?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I've been looking into trimming down the sets of symbols exported and
>> imported by each C source file in Emacs, down to the list of symbols
>> that are actually needed.  This should make it easier to read the
>> code, and to do better static analysis, and shrink Emacs a bit by
>> removing unused cruft.

> I don't think this has been a problem for us in practice; there isn't
> sufficient justification to replace DEFUNS throughout the tree.

Agreed.  I could imagine distinguishing between "function only called
from Lisp" and "function both exported to Lisp and called from C", but
the static/non-static distinction would rarely if ever be of any help
for DEFUNs since those are always "called from some other file" anyway
(typically a Lisp file).


        Stefan