@var{filename} with the extension @samp{.elc} appended. If such a
file exists, it is loaded. If there is no file by that name, then
@code{load} looks for a file named @file{@var{filename}.el}. If that
-file exists, it is loaded. Finally, if neither of those names is
-found, @code{load} looks for a file named @var{filename} with nothing
-appended, and loads it if it exists. (The @code{load} function is not
-clever about looking at @var{filename}. In the perverse case of a
-file named @file{foo.el.el}, evaluation of @code{(load "foo.el")} will
-indeed find it.)
+file exists, it is loaded. If Emacs was compiled with support for
+dynamic modules (@pxref{Dynamic Modules}), @code{load} next looks for
+a file named @file{@var{filename}.@var{ext}}, where @var{ext} is a
+system-dependent file-name extension of shared libraries. Finally, if
+neither of those names is found, @code{load} looks for a file named
+@var{filename} with nothing appended, and loads it if it exists. (The
+@code{load} function is not clever about looking at @var{filename}.
+In the perverse case of a file named @file{foo.el.el}, evaluation of
+@code{(load "foo.el")} will indeed find it.)
If Auto Compression mode is enabled, as it is by default, then if
@code{load} can not find a file, it searches for a compressed version
If the optional argument @var{must-suffix} is non-@code{nil}, then
@code{load} insists that the file name used must end in either
@samp{.el} or @samp{.elc} (possibly extended with a compression
-suffix), unless it contains an explicit directory name.
+suffix) or the shared-library extension, unless it contains an
+explicit directory name.
If the option @code{load-prefer-newer} is non-@code{nil}, then when
searching suffixes, @code{load} selects whichever version of a file