builtin_apply et al

[law@redhat.com]

In message <87hdvjx4x9.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>, Zack Weinberg writes:
 >Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:
 >
 >> I can see that the builtin_apply *might* be useful somewhere, but is it
 >> really being used beyond test cases?
 >>
 >> Dare I suggest deprecating this 'feature'? (rather than fixing it)
 >
 >I'm pretty sure it's used by the objective-c runtime, sorry.
That's my recollection as well.

jeff