Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU!mahajan
From: mahajan@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (Sanjoy Mahajan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: out-of-date .elc files
Message-ID: <8903102337.AA02651@Portia.stanford.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 89 22:37:04 GMT
Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Lines: 10

Before loading a .elc file, Emacs should check if it's out of date
w.r.t. its .el file.  If it is, Emacs should either 1) warn you 2)
recompile automatically.  Either way, you won't get burned by
forgetting to recompile some .el file.

One of these two options was a feature of Gosling Emacs, I think;
mercifully, I haven't used Gosmacs in so long, I forget the exact
case.

/Sanjoy