This protocol is used by `simple-message' subclasses."))
+(export 'method-keyword-argument-lists)
+(defgeneric method-keyword-argument-lists (method direct-methods)
+ (:documentation
+ "Returns a list of keyword argument lists to be merged.
+
+ This should return a list suitable for passing to `merge-keyword-lists',
+ i.e., each element should be a pair consisting of a list of `argument'
+ objects and a string describing the source of the argument list."))
+
(export 'compute-sod-effective-method)
(defgeneric compute-sod-effective-method (message class)
(:documentation
not included, and neither are more exotic arguments added as part of the
method delegation protocol."))
+(export 'effective-method-live-p)
+(defgeneric effective-method-live-p (method)
+ (:documentation
+ "Returns true if the effective METHOD is live.
+
+ An effective method is `live' if it should actually have proper method entry
+ functions associated with it and stored in the class vtable. The other
+ possibility is that the method is `dead', in which case the function
+ pointers in the vtable are left null."))
+
;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
;;; Code generation.
(cons (make-argument *sod-key-pointer*
(c-type (* (void :const))))
raw-args))))
- (*keyword-struct-disposition* t))
+ (*keyword-struct-disposition* (if (effective-method-keywords method)
+ :pointer :null)))
(codegen-push codegen)
(ensure-ilayout-var codegen super)
(when (and (keyword-message-p message)