Bug in preloading certain files

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From: Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 08:56

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Emacs 19.25 will call abort() in store_function_docstring in doc.c whenever the
compiled byte code vector is not long enough to hold a doc string.
Unfortunately, it is possible for there to be a doc string associated with a
function name in ../etc/DOC where the doc string did not come from the file
where the byte-compiled definition came from.

This can easily be reproduced by including loading of cl.elc or rmailkwd.elc as
part of a site-load.el.  In cl.el, the function macroexpand (which has a doc
string from the C code) is replaced by one with no doc string; in rmailkwd, the
function rmail-read-label replaces an autoload that provided the doc string.

		Leonard

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