/* GNU Objective C Runtime nil receiver function Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Kresten Krab Thorup This file is part of GCC. GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GCC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* As a special exception, if you link this library with files compiled with GCC to produce an executable, this does not cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ /* This is the nil method, the function that is called when the receiver of a method is nil */ #include "runtime.h" /* When the receiver of a method invocation is nil, the runtime returns nil_method() as the method implementation. This function will be casted to whatever function was supposed to be executed to execute that method (that function will take an id, followed by a SEL, followed by who knows what arguments, depends on the method), and executed. For this reason, nil_method() should be a function which can be called in place of any function taking an 'id' argument followed by a 'SEL' argument, followed by zero, or one, or any number of arguments (both a fixed number, or a variable number !). There is no "proper" implementation of such a nil_method function in C, however in all existing implementations it does not matter when extra arguments are present, so we can simply create a function taking a receiver and a selector, and all other arguments will be ignored. :-) */ id nil_method (id receiver, SEL op __attribute__ ((__unused__))) { return receiver; }