cl-mapc small fixes

* lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el (cl-mapc): Add autoload cookie.  Doc fix.

* doc/misc/cl.texi (Mapping over Sequences): Mention cl-mapc naming oddity.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
index fa58cd958db..941c430ce74 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         (Setf Extensions): Partially restore note about cl-getf,
         mainly moved to lispref/variables.texi.
         (Property Lists): Fix cl-getf typos.
+        (Mapping over Sequences): Mention cl-mapc naming oddity.
 
 2012-10-29  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
diff --git a/doc/misc/cl.texi b/doc/misc/cl.texi
index 4105ac349ec..8cee1cf9639 100644
--- a/doc/misc/cl.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/cl.texi
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ because they are replaced by other standard Emacs Lisp features.
 Finally, in a very few cases the old @file{cl.el} versions do not
 behave in exactly the same way as the @file{cl-lib.el} versions.
 @xref{Obsolete Features}.
+@c There is also cl-mapc, which was called cl-mapc even before cl-lib.el.
+@c But not autoloaded, so maybe not much used?
 
 Since the old @file{cl.el} does not use a clean namespace, Emacs has a
 policy that packages distributed with Emacs must not load @code{cl} at
@@ -3309,13 +3311,15 @@ that it passes in the list pointers themselves rather than the
 @code{car}s of the advancing pointers.
 @end defun
 
-@c FIXME does not exist?
 @defun cl-mapc function seq &rest more-seqs
 This function is like @code{cl-mapcar}, except that the values returned
 by @var{function} are ignored and thrown away rather than being
 collected into a list.  The return value of @code{cl-mapc} is @var{seq},
 the first sequence.  This function is more general than the Emacs
-primitive @code{mapc}.
+primitive @code{mapc}.  (Note that this function is called
+@code{cl-mapc} even in @file{cl.el}, rather than @code{map*} as you
+might expect.)
+@c http://debbugs.gnu.org/6575
 @end defun
 
 @defun cl-mapl function list &rest more-lists