Follow-up Comment #5, bug #36706 (project gnustep):
Hi Fred,
It seems like you're correct. At least, Apple runtime reference documentation
explicitly states that class_getMessageImplementation() might return a pointer
to `a part of the runtime's message forwarding machinery'. So we technically
would need to modify the behaviour of our runtime to be compatible with the
Apple implementation.
Since that is a bit tedious (since it means juggling around with varargs and
various places where the return value might end up), my is a take on this
issue is that we should, in the meantime, do two things:
a) Don't raise an exception in gs_objc_msg_forward2(), just return NULL if we
cannot get a signature to construct a cframe for. The function is a hook for
the runtime, which should tolerate if the forwarding mechanism doesn't come up
with a sensible match.
b) Amend our implementation of `-performSelector:' to just use
objc_msg_lookup() and call the returned IMP. This is what a message send
compiles to anyways, which (I think) should be more robust than the present
code that calls class_getMethodImplementation(). But then again I might be
missing the reason why we did it that way in the first place...
Cheers,
Niels
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