byte compiler problem: miscompiling emacs-w3m

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 > Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  > Katsumi, Mike and Dieter: this change
 >  > http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs?cs=e8f448f997ac 
 >  > fixes the problem for me. I'd appreciate confirmation of this from your end,
 >  > if you have the time to check. 
 > 
 > Aidan, would you please take the time to explain why this DTRTs?  A
 > good place would be as a comment in the code, and you should feel free
 > to point that out to a reviewer (probably me ;-) who asks for more
 > explanation.

Oh, I see; I gather this is a follow-on to "bind print-gensym to a cons".
But

 > The reason in this case is that byte compiler expertise is now a rare
 > commodity.  Even a small thing like explaining why that
 > print-gensym-alist interferes with byte compilation would help raise
 > consciousness (speaking for myself, of course, and possibly others).

still applies.  A note that it is conceptually part of that earlier
patch might be appropriate?