libobjc/nil_method.c

   1 /* GNU Objective C Runtime nil receiver function
   2    Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3    Contributed by Kresten Krab Thorup
   4
   5 This file is part of GCC.
   6
   7 GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
   8 terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
   9 Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
  10
  11 GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
  12 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
  13 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
  14 details.
  15
  16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
  17 GCC; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software
  18 Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  19 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
  20
  21 /* As a special exception, if you link this library with files compiled with
  22    GCC to produce an executable, this does not cause the resulting executable
  23    to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
  24    however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be
  25    covered by the GNU General Public License.  */
  26
  27 /* This is the nil method, the function that is called when the receiver
  28    of a method is nil */
  29
  30 #include "runtime.h"
  31
  32 /* When the receiver of a method invocation is nil, the runtime
  33    returns nil_method() as the method implementation.  This function
  34    will be casted to whatever function was supposed to be executed to
  35    execute that method (that function will take an id, followed by a
  36    SEL, followed by who knows what arguments, depends on the method),
  37    and executed.
  38
  39    For this reason, nil_method() should be a function which can be
  40    called in place of any function taking an 'id' argument followed by
  41    a 'SEL' argument, followed by zero, or one, or any number of
  42    arguments (both a fixed number, or a variable number !).
  43
  44    There is no "proper" implementation of such a nil_method function
  45    in C, however in all existing implementations it does not matter
  46    when extra arguments are present, so we can simply create a function
  47    taking a receiver and a selector, and all other arguments will be
  48    ignored. :-)
  49 */
  50
  51 id
  52 nil_method (id receiver, SEL op __attribute__ ((__unused__)))
  53 {
  54   return receiver;
  55 }