1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/libobjc/nil_method.c b/contrib/libobjc/nil_method.c
index 1b6212826bda..5e37c4d5dfb4 100644
--- a/contrib/libobjc/nil_method.c
+++ b/contrib/libobjc/nil_method.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* GNU Objective C Runtime nil receiver function
-   Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Contributed by Kresten Krab Thorup
 
 This file is part of GNU CC.
@@ -29,12 +29,27 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
 
 #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, ...)
+nil_method (id receiver, SEL op __attribute__ ((__unused__)))
 {
   return receiver;
 }
-
-
-
-