From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:12:03 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: declare-function doc string clarification about FILE
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~1740
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=172dfac035d471f40d456a559518944ce47b337a;p=emacs.git

declare-function doc string clarification about FILE

* lisp/subr.el (declare-function): Mention that FILE can be nil
(bug#21466).
---

diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 49c26cc0d33..59a1af01ba6 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
   "Tell the byte-compiler that function FN is defined, in FILE.
 The FILE argument is not used by the byte-compiler, but by the
 `check-declare' package, which checks that FILE contains a
-definition for FN.
+definition for FN.  (FILE can be nil, and that disables this
+check.)
 
 FILE can be either a Lisp file (in which case the \".el\"
 extension is optional), or a C file.  C files are expanded