Added long comments on why nil_method takes the arguments it takes and how
it's going to be used From-SVN: r57073
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#include "runtime.h"
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/* nil_method is declared with variable arguments but the runtime calls it
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in a way that does not setup the variable arguments correctly. Some Architectures
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that have special arg calling conventions like x86-64 do need every function with
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variable arguments called the correct way. */
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/* When the receiver of a method invocation is nil, the runtime
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returns nil_method() as the method implementation. This function
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will be casted to whatever function was supposed to be executed to
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execute that method (that function will take an id, followed by a
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SEL, followed by who knows what arguments, depends on the method),
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and executed.
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For this reason, nil_method() should be a function which can be
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called in place of any function taking an 'id' argument followed by
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a 'SEL' argument, followed by zero, or one, or any number of
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arguments (both a fixed number, or a variable number !).
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There is no "proper" implementation of such a nil_method function
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in C, however in all existing implementations it does not matter
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when extra arguments are present, so we can simply create a function
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taking a receiver and a selector, and all other arguments will be
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ignored. :-)
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*/
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id
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nil_method (id receiver, SEL op __attribute__ ((__unused__)))
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{
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