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From: Alastair Burt <burt@dfki.uni-sb.de>
To: XEmacs Beta Mailing List <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Bytecomp Bug
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byte-compile-version "2.25 XEmacs; 22-Mar-96." (in the latest XEmacs 20.0)

*** bytecomp.el	1997/02/07 10:32:46	1.1
--- bytecomp.el	1997/02/07 10:33:25
***************
*** 1705,1711 ****
  	       "\n(if (and (boundp 'emacs-version)\n"
  	       "\t (or (and (boundp 'epoch::version) epoch::version)\n"
  	       "\t     (and (not (string-match \"XEmacs\" emacs-version))\n"
! 	       "\t          (string-lessp emacs-version \"19.29\"))n"
  	       "\t     (string-lessp emacs-version \"19.14\")))\n"
  	       "    (error \"`"
  	       ;; prin1-to-string is used to quote backslashes.
--- 1705,1711 ----
  	       "\n(if (and (boundp 'emacs-version)\n"
  	       "\t (or (and (boundp 'epoch::version) epoch::version)\n"
  	       "\t     (and (not (string-match \"XEmacs\" emacs-version))\n"
! 	       "\t          (string-lessp emacs-version \"19.29\"))\n"
  	       "\t     (string-lessp emacs-version \"19.14\")))\n"
  	       "    (error \"`"
  	       ;; prin1-to-string is used to quote backslashes.

This bug makes me wonder: has nobody tried to generate XEmacs 19 code with
an XEmacs 20 compiler since March 1996?

--- Alastair

