Re: byte-compile-file not reentrant?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 30/12/2009 10:58, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> A buffer created with (get-buffer-create " *Compiler Input*") makes
>> byte-compile-file not reentrant if I understand it correctly. (I did
>> not look very carefully.)
>>
>
> It's not very clear what you did not look very carefully at, but I suspect
> that what you are looking at is the test for reentrancy, not the cause.


For the output it does

     (with-current-buffer
         (setq bytecomp-outbuffer (get-buffer-create " *Compiler Output*"))
       (set-buffer-multibyte t)
       (erase-buffer)

This does not look very reentrant.