"XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6) \"Common Lisp\" [Lucid] (powerpc-debian-linux, Mule) of Tue Apr 9 2002 on voltaire" If I start a fresh XEmacs and byte-compile-file this file: ;;; file tmp.el (defun foo () (load-time-value 42)) I get, essentially: ;;; file tmp.elc (defalias 'foo #[nil "ÀJ\207" [--cl-load-time--70605] 1]) where foo disassemble to args: nil 0 constant --cl-load-time--70605 1 symbol-value 2 return The value of --cl-load-time--70605 isn't set by tmp.elc, so when I load it and call (foo), I get this error message: Symbol's value as variable is void: --cl-load-time--70605 Strangely, if I at this point compile tmp.el again, I get ;;; file tmp.elc (byte-code "Á\211^P\207" [--cl-load-time--70605 42] 2) (defalias 'foo #[nil "ÀJ\207" [--cl-load-time--70606] 1]) where the previously used variable is correctly set to 42, but the foo function refers to a new symbol, so it stills fails like before. -- Lars Brinkhoff, Services for Unix, Linux, GCC, HTTP Brinkhoff Consulting http://www.brinkhoff.se/