Strange Emacs autoloaded library

[Lowell Gilbert]

a at zeos.net writes:

>> I have removed the files
>> menu-bar.el.gz
>> menu-bar.elc
>> from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp.
>> But load-history variable still shows me
>> /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/menu-bar.elc
>> loaded and menu-bar appeared at emacs startup.
>> 
>> What is this?
>> 
>> Any other library from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/
>> does not load being deleted.
>> 
>> Elisej Babenko
>
> I was wrong with the last thesis:
> startup.el.gz
> startup.elc
> and may be some other libraries behave in the same strange manner.
> They are loaded being deleted from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/.
>
> My question is the same.

Some libraries are dumped with the executable.