Re: Bug#38708: eq vs eql in byte-compiled code

[Mattias Engdegård]

31 dec. 2019 kl. 16.07 skrev Pip Cet <address@hidden>:

> For example, this code will produce t:
> 
> (defun my-eq (a b) (eq a b))
> (defun f () (xor (eq 1.0 1.0) (my-eq 1.0 1.0)))
> (byte-compile 'f)
> (f)

The summary is correct (thank you). Let me just add that strings were already 
deduplicated in the same way, so if 1.0 is replaced with "A" in the code 
fragment above, the result is the same. And eq is no more appropriate for 
flonums than for string literals.