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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.el')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.el index 2ba708d9c92..9a516b9d36e 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.el @@ -112,10 +112,11 @@ definition for FN. ARGLIST is used by both the byte-compiler and `check-declare' to check for consistency. FILE can be either a Lisp file (in which case the \".el\" -extension is optional), or a C file. FILE should be either -absolute, or relative to the location of the file containing the -declaration (for a Lisp file), or to the Emacs \"src/\" directory -\(for a C file). +extension is optional), or a C file. C files are expanded +relative to the Emacs \"src/\" directory. Lisp files are +searched for using `locate-library', and if that fails they are +expanded relative to the location of the file containing the +declaration. Note that for the purposes of `check-declare', this statement must be the first non-whitespace on a line, and everything up to |