bug#21466: [PATCH] Avoid defining (temporarily) vars and functions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> CC-mode currently defines various non-CC-mode variables and functions
> with dummy values, as a way to avoid byte-compiler warnings when using
> those external vars/functions.
>
> Since this is dangerous business, CC-mode has to be extra careful to
> undo such settings when they're not needed any more.

This was five years ago, but skimming the code, it seems like it's
generally applicable still?

Alan, do you have any comments on this patch?

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