Can a loading file get its path?

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From: Jason Merrill
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:54

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When an elisp file is being loaded, is there any way for it to find out
what its pathname is?  It doesn't have a buffer yet, so buffer-file-name is
nil.  default-directory just gives the current directory of emacs.

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Jason Merrill					jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
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