Re: Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Agreed: I'm generally all for writing ELisp instead of C, but
>> I wouldn't bother rewriting this code in ELisp, personally.
> Sounds like the etc/TODO entry that suggests doing just this should be
> updated/removed then. It refers to
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2012-06/msg00037.html

But there the idea was specifically for the scan of .el(c) files and not
for the scan of C files.  Also the idea was not to implement a new
scanning code but to do it from existing code that already looks at
the files (e.g. `autoloads.el` or the `bytecomp.el`).


        Stefan