From: Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:11:55 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: ; Add commentary on location of zerop
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; Add commentary on location of zerop

* lisp/subr.el (zerop): Add commentary explaining why moving the
function's location within the file broke bootstrap in
2018-07-10T23:08:58-07:00!contovob@tcd.ie.
---

diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index c1d90e3fb18..a5108eb6558 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -548,6 +548,9 @@ If N is omitted or nil, remove the last element."
 	   (if (> n 0) (setcdr (nthcdr (- (1- m) n) list) nil))
 	   list))))
 
+;; This function appears here instead of under the 'Basic Lisp
+;; functions' heading because during bootstrap its compiler-macro
+;; requires functions defined under the 'List functions' heading.
 (defun zerop (number)
   "Return t if NUMBER is zero."
   ;; Used to be in C, but it's pointless since (= 0 n) is faster anyway because